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Sharing medical records: comparison of general psychiatric patients with somatisation disorder patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nick Goddard ,
Morris Bernadt  and
Simon Wessely
Nick Goddard
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AZ
Morris Bernadt*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, 103 Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS
Simon Wessely
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, 103 Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS
*
∗ Correspondence
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Abstract

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The responses of somatisation disorder (SD) patients to reading their main clinical summary were compared with those of general psychiatric patients, to assess whether the sharing of information and psychiatic opinion might help in the management of SD. Overall the SD patients responded favourably on 8 out of 11 measures; 28 of the 30 (93%) thought it was a good idea to have read the summary and 26 (87%) thought it had provided helpful information. Significantly more of the SD patients (57% compared with 27% of the general psychiatric patients) had their concerns about undiagnosed illness increase as a result of reading their clinical summary.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 8 , August 1997 , pp. 489 - 491
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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