Blease C, Kharko A, Hägglund M, et al. The benefits and harms of open notes in mental health: A Delphi survey of international experts. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258056.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258056
This survey used a Delphi poll – an established methodology used to investigate emerging healthcare policy, including in psychiatry. International experts who included health professionals and persons with lived experience of mental healthcare were asked to give their opinions, anonymously, in three rounds of online surveys, and to offer their views about the potential benefits and harms of online access to mental health notes. Experts – drawn from 70 experts from six countries – agreed patients’ access to their mental health notes could offer multiple benefits and few harms.
