Whom Should We Regard as Responsible for Health Record Inaccuracies That Hinder Population-Based Fact Finding?

Kathleen M Akgün1, Shelli L Feder2

  • 1Associate professor of medicine at VA-Connecticut Health Care System and the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

AMA Journal of Ethics
|January 2, 2025
PubMed

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