KNOWLEDGE AMONG SWEDISH DENTISTS ABOUT RULES FOR PATIENT RECORDS

Some Swedish dentists chosen at random answered a questionnaire in 199 2. The aim was to find out if the knowledge among dentists as a whole about patient record matters is as bad as patient records in disciplin ary cases imply. The knowledge was good and better than expected. Spec ialists have a better knowledge than private practitioners and they al so more often have a secretary to handle the patient records. Time of licensation and the dentist's age were of no importance. If the standa rd of knowledge in a few formal matters corresponds to a high standard in the observance of the rules will be investigated in the second par t of this investigation (Rasmusson et al 1994), which will scrutinize patient records from the same dentists who answered the questionnaire.