Responding to requests for medical records
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Additional resources
- eLearning activity: Medical letters, forms and reports
- CMPA Good practices: Medical letters, forms and reports
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- CMPA Good practices: Privacy and confidentiality
- eLearning activity: Documentation
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- CMPA Good practices: Documentation and record keeping
- CMPA Good practices: Duty to report
Additional reading
- Who has custody of medical records, and who is entitled to access them?
- My patients, my records?
- Managing access to electronic health records
- Family disputes and the physician: Staying focused on safe care
References
- How to manage your medical records: Retention, access, security, storage, disposal, and transfer [Internet]. [accessed 2025 Feb 13]. Available from: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/advice-publications/browse-articles/2003/a-matter-of-records-retention-and-transfer-of-clinical-records
- Physician-patient: Informed consent: CMPA good practices [Internet]. [accessed 2025 Feb 13]. Available from: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/education-events/good-practices/physician-patient/informed-consent
- Why do you need to know? A balancing act for accessing personal health information [Internet]. [accessed 2025 Feb 13]. Available from: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/advice-publications/browse-articles/2020/why-do-you-need-to-know-a-balancing-act-for-accessing-personal-health-information
- Did you know? you need authorization to provide medical records to lawyers [Internet]. [accessed 2025 Feb 13]. Available from: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/advice-publications/browse-articles/2018/did-you-know-you-need-authorization-to-provide-medical-records-to-lawyers
- Did you know? patients can restrict access to their health information [Internet]. [accessed 2025 Feb 13]. Available from: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/advice-publications/browse-articles/2017/did-you-know-patients-can-restrict-access-to-their-health-information
- Responding to requests for children [Internet]. [accessed 2025 Feb 13]. Available from: https://www.cmpa-acpm.ca/en/advice-publications/browse-articles/2005/responding-to-requests-for-children-s-medical-records#:~:text=Access%20at%20a%20glance&text=Parents%20with%20parenting%20time%20rights,(or%20capable%20child)%20consents
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- Provincial Health Information Acts
- Provincial Health Professions Acts
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