Knowledge among Swedish dentists about rules for patient records.

Some Swedish dentists chosen at random answered a questionnaire in 1992. 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 disciplinary cases imply. The knowledge was good and better than expected. Specialists have a better knowledge than private practitioners and they also more often have a secretary to handle the patient records. Time of licensation and the dentist's age were of no importance. If the standard of knowledge in a few formal matters corresponds to a high standard in the observance of the rules will be investigated in the second part of this investigation (Rasmusson et al 1994), which will scrutinize patient records from the same dentists who answered the questionnaire.