post- renee

Thank you for your initial discussion post.  It stimulated my thinking, so thank you for that.  Specifically on release of information waivers from patients and I remembered reading in the class cafe that you are from Miami and work in a psychiatric facility.  While working in transplant I would, with consent of the patient, have access to their electronic medical record at other hospitals.  However, one of the records we were not permitted to enter was the psychiatric evaluation due to the sensitivity of the information contained in those records.  What are your thoughts on mental health researchers using the confidential records of mental health patients to further evidenced based practices?  I have provided a link for you if you would like to refer to an article.  

Renee Scialli

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.201400200