On a monthly basis, one of 17 physicians at Orthopedic Surgery Center of Orange County in Newport Beach, Calif., is chosen to peer review 30 medical charts for accuracy and completeness. The only ...
Bay Area hospitals are testing a new device called Motion C5 which could make the paper patient medical chart a thing of the past. The handheld computer tablet, developed in collaboration with UCSF, ...
Alan Beyer, MD, of Orthopedic Surgery Center of Orange County in Newport Beach, Calif., explains how the surgery center ensures medical charts are completely and accurately filled out according to ...
We’ve known for a long time that there are racial disparities in health outcomes. For about as long, we’ve tried to chalk this fact up to recalcitrant socioeconomic issues. But a recent cover story in ...
In order to address the specific details and regulatory requirements present in a retrospective medical chart review, the UB IRB recently created a new Protocol template: the HRP-503R. In order to ...
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on TeamHealth’s website. We all know the facilities in which we work will eventually track us down for a signature on a chart. But did you know that ...
Can signing off on a note in a patient’s medical chart constitute provision of health care? Read our latest Legal Advisor to find out. Ms N was a nurse practitioner (NP) working in a primary care ...
Northside Hospital in Atlanta had the highest c-section rate among metro area hospitals in 2014, with 40 percent of babies delivered by cesarean, according to an analysis by The Atlanta ...
ACTUAL SENTENCES FOUND IN PATIENT'S HOSPITAL CHARTS<BR> <BR>01. She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.<BR> <BR>02. Patient has chest pain if ...