PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Clough, John D.
AU  - Rowan, David W.
AU  - Nickelson, Daniel E.
TI  - Keeping our patients' secrets
DP  - 1999 Oct 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 554--558
VI  - 66
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/66/9/554.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/66/9/554.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1999 Oct 01; 66
AB  - Protecting the privacy of the patient's medical record is a central issue in current discussions about a patient bill of rights, and controversy over a proposed "unique health identifier" has raised the decibel level of these discussions. At the heart of the debate is how best to resolve the inherent conflict between the individual's right to privacy and the need for access to patients' health information for reasons of public health, research, and health care management.