Posts Tagged ‘If you didn’t chart it you didn’t do it’
Missing Documentation
Legal nurse consultants receive medical records from healthcare providers, either through working as an employee in a law firm, insurance company or being an independent consultant. If we want full certified records we trust that the facility will send them. The attorney relies on us to recognize if there is missing documentation. We don’t always…
Read More“If you didn’t chart it, you didn’t do it”, Part 4: Common Medical Record Deficiencies
Nursing homes are affected by many challenges, many of which directly affect the quality of care and allegations of nursing home negligence. The challenges were highlighted by speakers at Preventing and Defending Long Term Care Litigation at The Conrad in Miami. Pat Iyer moderated a panel of defense and plaintiff attorneys and another legal nurse…
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