{"title":"Medical records and malpractice claims.","authors":"D Karp","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The importance of the hospital medical chart in a medical malpractice case is well known. This article gives hospitals and their medical records directors guidance on what should and should not appear in the patient's medical chart.</p>","PeriodicalId":80221,"journal":{"name":"The Medical malpractice cost containment journal","volume":"1 4","pages":"303-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Medical malpractice cost containment journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The importance of the hospital medical chart in a medical malpractice case is well known. This article gives hospitals and their medical records directors guidance on what should and should not appear in the patient's medical chart.