kinds of information is sent to colledges?

I was wondering what kinds of information psychiatric hospitals/hospitals send to colleges and Where it might be possible to access the information or data.

Hey Can't Remember My Name,

As far as I know, the only way medical records could be sent to professionals at a College or University is if they are doing research there. Sometimes researchers need the person's consent to have access to their medical records and other times they don't. It really depends on what type of study they are doing.

For example, if you were doing a study on how many people are hospitalized each year, you probably wouldn't need the consent of every person hospitalized to have access to that data. However, if you were doing a study on how many people in the hospital have mental disorder X then you would need people's consent because that's private information.

In regards to your second question, I think the only way you could access the data researchers are gathering from hospitals is by directly contacting them or reading the studies that they publish.

Hope that answers your question. Take care and best wishes.

You're talking about what exactly? I don't think they do that regularly... Jester is also correct there is a degree of permission required depending on the purpose of your study. Hospitals does not share information on their patients unless you have some level of authority.

Infinite_Jester wrote:Hey Can't Remember My Name,

As far as I know, the only way medical records could be sent to professionals at a College or University is if they are doing research there. Sometimes researchers need the person's consent to have access to their medical records and other times they don't. It really depends on what type of study they are doing.

For example, if you were doing a study on how many people are hospitalized each year, you probably wouldn't need the consent of every person hospitalized to have access to that data. However, if you were doing a study on how many people in the hospital have mental disorder X then you would need people's consent because that's private information.

In regards to your second question, I think the only way you could access the data researchers are gathering from hospitals is by directly contacting them or reading the studies that they publish.

Hope that answers your question. Take care and best wishes.

Is there any example content you could direct me too? the kinds of information. I dont know where to find it to see what it looks like. Is there a centralized place to find research where this kind of information would go? any search engine keywords? im trying to look at all kinds of things. the to and from systematically some of it. To see how it works. its hard to describe or ask better quality questions.

Hey Can't Remember My Name,

cantremembermyname wrote:Is there any example content you could direct me too? the kinds of information. I dont know where to find it to see what it looks like. Is there a centralized place to find research where this kind of information would go? any search engine keywords? im trying to look at all kinds of things. the to and from systematically some of it. To see how it works. its hard to describe or ask better quality questions.

Only your medical records are centralized and the only persons who have access to the data are those in your immediate chain of care: care aides, nurses, doctors and those who file your records.

As for the possibility that some of your medical records were used in a research study without your consent, I have no idea how you would figure that out but all research studies that use subjects are not permitted to release any revealing information. Even in case studies, where the study is of one single person, the custom is to use initials instead of their name and often these initials are inaccurate to protect the person's identity further. There's only rare examples of a subject's identity being revealed while they were alive like H.M who had his hippocampus removed to try to treat his epilepsy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison).

So if you were hospitalized your information should be safe. Certainly safe from colleges and universities.

Take care.