TY - JOUR T1 - Disability Guideline, Role Conflicts, and Treatment Records JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 392 LP - 396 VL - 37 IS - 3 AU - H. Berryman Edwards Y1 - 2009/09/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/37/3/392.abstract N2 - The AAPL Practice Guidelines for the Forensic Evaluation of Psychiatric Disability reminds treating psychiatrists as well as forensic examiners of the potential for role conflicts and of numerous factors related to handling of treatment records. This commentary suggests ways of more completely avoiding role conflicts, including those related to payment, and elaborates on implementation of requirements of the HIPAA Privacy Rules applicable to independent examination by third parties. ER -