Question

You receive a request for an amendment from a patient who was treated at your hospital for 2 weeks as an inpatient for behavioral health condition. The patient indicates that he does not have the documented behavior and he wants the diagnosis removed from the record. How do you respond. Will you accept or deny the amendment. What other actions might you take? Please be specific.

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Patient Privacy in Mental Health: Balancing Rights while Trying to Ensure Appropriate Treatment

Privacy rights and protection of health information take on special meaning in mental health care, whether because of the stigma associated with mental health conditions, or issues of family dynamics, or a variety of other reasons.

- Some patients may not realise that the majority of what they tell a GP will be recorded in their medical record in some form or another. If the patient demands deleting the records, then this should only be done in exceptional cases – and only then in paper records, never electronic.