Documenting one’s assessment of a patient’s physical appearance during a clinical encounter is regarded as a key element of a clinician’s overall judgment of a patient’s health.

Since health care organizations’ widespread adoption of electronic health records, clinicians’ notes about patients’ care have become longer and more cumbersome.

Electronic health records offer immediate access to a broad swath of health information and data that patients are often not prepared to interpret or review.

This commentary offers best-practice recommendations about informed consent processes and patient-clinician relationship formation.

This commentary on a case canvasses federal and organizational rules applicable to health recordkeeping and “open notes.”

Brett Feldman joins Ethics Talk to discuss the evolution of electronic health records in street health care practice.

UDN research is complex and involves many variables, and some patient-subjects think that having enrolled in a UDN protocol was not worthwhile.

Dr Mylynda B. Massart joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Erika N. Dreikorn: “How Should Students and Trainees Be Taught to Support Patients With Undiagnosed Conditions?”

Patients with undiagnosed conditions often experience frustration and lose trust in health care.

Access to health care is a key structural determinant of health, with lack of health insurance as a main barrier.