Figure 3

Outpatient survey: Reasons for the request for disclosure of medical records (Treatment receiving behavior survey, fiscal 1999: Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare). With respect to the reason that outpatients wish to know the contents of their medical records, about 50% of patients selected "to deepen the understanding of treatment I receive". The second highest percentage of patients selected "to know the true disease name, disease condition, and treatment contents". Thus, patients' "eagerness to heal" was the reason given by most patients.