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Bonewit Chapter one

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Medical Record   A written report of important info about a patient.  
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Patient   Individual receiving medical care.  
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Attending physician   The physician responsible for the care of a hospitalized patient  
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Charting   The process of making written entries about a patient in the medical record  
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Consultation report   A narrative report of an opinion about a patient's condition by a practitioner other than the attending physician  
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Diagnosis   The scientific method of determining and identifying a patient's condition  
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Diagnostic procedure   A procedure performed to assist in the diagnosis, management, or treatment of a patient's condition  
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Discharge summary report   A brief summary of the significant events of a patient's hospitalization  
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Electronic medical record   A medical record that is stored on a computer, abbreviated as EMR  
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Familial   Occurring or affecting members of a family more frequently than would be expected by chance  
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Health history report   A collection of subjective data about a patient  
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Home health care   The provision of medical and non-medical care in a patient's home or place of residence  
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Informed consent   consent given by a patient for a medical procedure after being informed of the nature of their condition,the purpose of the procedure,an explanation of risks involved with the procedure,alternative treatments or procedures available ect.  
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Inpatient   A patient who has been admitted to a hospital for at least one overnight stay  
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Medical impressions   Conclusions drawn by the physician from an interpretation of data;other terms include provisional diagnosis and tentative diagnosis  
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Medical record format   The way a medical record is organized; the two main types of medical record formats are the source-oriented record and the problem-oriented record  
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Objective symptom   A symptom that can be observed by an examiner  
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Paper based patient record   A medical record in paper form, abbreviated as PPR  
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Patient   An individual receiving medical care  
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Physical examination   An assessment of each part of the patient's body to obtain objective data about the patient that assists in determining the patient's state of health  
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Physical examination report   A report of the objective findings from the physician's assessment of each body system  
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Problem   Any condition that requires further observation, diagnosis, management, or patient education  
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Prognosis   The probable course and outcome of a disease and the prospects for a patient's recovery  
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Reverse chronological order   Arranging documents with the most recent document on top or in the front, which means that the oldest document is on the bottom or at the back of a section or file  
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Soap format   A method of organization for recording progress notes; includes the following categories: subjective data, objective data, assessment, and plan  
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Subjective symptom   A symptom that is felt by the patient, but is not observable by an examiner  
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Symptom   Any change in the body or its functioning that indicates the presence of disease  
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