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- Title
PATIENT'S MEDICAL RECORDS, PRIVACY AND COPYRIGHT IN NIGERIA: ON-GOING RESEARCH.
- Authors
ADERIBIGBE, TITILAYO O.; SODIPO, BANKOLE
- Abstract
The documentation of patients' medical records including the diagnosis and treatment is a legal and professional requirement for medical personnel in private and government health facilities. This article discusses how patient's medical records are constituted and challenges the general perceptions of health workers and patients concerning medical records. It highlights the duty of confidentiality owed to patients by health care workers, how the rules of professional conduct of medical practitioners guide the usage of information in patient's medical records for research. It examines whether copyright subsists in the medical records of patients; the patients; medical personnel who created them; or the health facilities own the rights. It urges a change in the position in Nigeria concerning patients' access to their medical records in line with international best practices. We conclude that in the interest of copyright ownership, the copyright in medical record should be given to the health care facilities.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; MEDICAL record laws; COPYRIGHT
- Publication
University of Western Australia Law Review, 2017, Vol 42, Issue 2, p88
- ISSN
0042-0328
- Publication type
Article