Medical Record Review Challenges for Personal Injury Attorneys

Medical Record Review Challenges for Personal Injury Attorneys

MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW

While handling personal injury cases, attorneys may have to review voluminous medical records to understand the medical issues in the case.

Records that need to be reviewed include physician visits, annual health check reports, hospital visits, admission and discharge summaries, operative notes, laboratory reports, and so on.

Medical record analysis is quite time consuming.

Medical Chart Review Challenges for Attorneys

Handwritten notes and illegible handwriting Not possible even to find out who wrote what

Difficult to understand abbreviations and jargon Certain abbreviations used by physicians can difficult to comprehend

Charting systems are not uniform Charting systems may vary among facilities

Incomplete medical record set The report may be missing out on nursing notes, surgery reports and so on

Meaningful information unavailable on the EHR This can happen when the software is awkwardly designed

Lack of chronological order Medical records that are not properly arranged will make it difficult to track the sequence of events

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