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Sharing medical records: comparison of general psychiatric patients with somatisation disorder patients

Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AZ;

Morris Bernadt, Honorary Senior Lecturer^* and Simon Wessely, Reader

Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, 103 Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS

^* Correspondence

The responses of somatisation disorder (SD) patients to reading their main clinical summary were compared with those of general psychiatric patients, to assess whether the sharing of information and psychiatic opinion might help in the management of SD. Overall the SD patients responded favourably on 8 out of 11 measures; 28 of the 30 (93%) thought if was a good idea to have read the summary and 26 (87%) thought it had provided helpful information. Significantly more of the SD patients (57% compared with 27% of the general psychiatric patients) had their concerns about undiagnosed illness increase as a result of reading their clinical summary.

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