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From: "Hughes, David" <D.Hughes@swansea.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: Impact of the Medical Record
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 14:51:36 -0000 
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Another reference on medical records is Sally Macintyre's (1978) paper 'Some
notes on record taking and making in an antenatal clinic' Sociological
Review 26(3): 595-611.

I wonder if anyone can help with a related enquiry?  I am trying to get a
sense of whether there is any literature on problems of research access to
organizational documents, including records, files and other papers.  My own
empirical interest concerns access to National Health Service Contracts,
which in theory are public documents but (perhaps for good organizational
reasons) prove to be difficult to obtain in complete form.  Does anybody
know of any general literature (I'm already familiar with Wheeler, Scott,
Plummer) on documents and research access, or of empirical studies that may
be relevant?