Table 1.

Participants’ (N = 30) responses to the closed-ended questions on records access

Records accessn (%)
Patients should have full historic records access
Agree6 (20.0)
Somewhat agree13 (43.3)
Disagree3 (10.0)
Somewhat disagree6 (20.0)
Don’t know2 (6.7)
Patients should have prospective records access
Agree13 (43.3)
Somewhat agree9 (30.0)
Disagree2 (6.7)
Somewhat disagree2 (6.7)
Don’t know4 (13.3)
Level of access currently granted to patients who request ita
None0 (0.0)
Appointment booking/repeat scripts6 (20.0)
Coded record11 (36.7)
Full record including free-text entries8 (26.7)
Don’t know/no answer5 (16.7)
  • a Practices, n = 24. When patients requested access, 5 (20.8%) practices granted appointment booking/repeat scripts, 11 (45.8%) granted access to the coded record, and 6 (25.0%) granted access to the full record. Data were unavailable for 2 (8.3%) of practices.