PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Liz Salmi
AU  - Selina Brudnicki
AU  - Maho Isono
AU  - Sara Riggare
AU  - Cecilia Rodriquez
AU  - Louise K Schaper
AU  - Jan Walker
AU  - Tom Delbanco
TI  - Six countries, six individuals: resourceful patients navigating medical records in Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Sweden and the USA
AID  - 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037016
DP  - 2020 Sep 01
TA  - BMJ Open
PG  - e037016
VI  - 10
IP  - 9
4099  - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/9/e037016.short
4100  - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/9/e037016.full
SO  - BMJ Open2020 Sep 01; 10
AB  - In the absence of international standards, widely differing attitudes and laws, medical and social cultures strongly influence whether and how patients may access their medical records in various settings of care. Reviewing records, including the notes clinicians write, can help shape how people participate in their own care. Aided at times by new technologies, individual patients and care partners are repurposing existing tools and designing innovative, often ‘low-tech’ ways to collect, sort and interpret their own health information. To illustrate diverse approaches that individuals may take, six individuals from six nations offer anecdotes demonstrating how they are learning to collect, assess and benefit from their personal health information.