Patient Records in Legal Cases
Patient Records in Legal Cases
Instructions: This discussion supports the following objective: Identify the role of health record documentation in public health reporting. Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response. As discussed in this unit, health records may be used as legal documents in situations of alleged malpractice, negligence, workplace injury, etc. If you were responsible for releasing patient records to requesting parties, what information would you need to see and/or verify to release patient records for legal discovery? Discuss any interesting information you came across while researching this topic of using health records in legal cases. Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
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