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Bonewit Chapter 1
The Medical Record-Arianna Butler
Question | Answer |
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attending physican | the physician responsible for the care of a patient while at the hospital. |
charting | the process of making written entries about a patient in the medical record and is preformed by a medical office personnel who are directly involved with the health care of the patient. |
consultation report | a narrative report of a clinical opinion about a patient's condition by a practitioner other than the primary physican, known as a consultant. |
diagnosis | refers to the scientific method of determining and identifying a patient's condition. |
diagnostic procedure | a type of procedure performed to assist in the diagnosis, management, or treatment of a patient's condition. |
discharge summary report | a brief summary of the significant events of a patient's hospitalization. |
EMR | electronic medical record. |
familial | a disease that occurs in or affects blood relatives more frequently than would be expected by chance |
health history report | a collection of subjective data about the patient. |
home health care | the provision of medical and non medical care in a patient's home or place of residence. |
informed consent | means that the patient has recieved the following information before giving consent. |
inpatient | a patient who has been admitted to the hospital for at least one overnight stay. |
medical impressions | conclusions deawn from an interpretation of data. |
medical record | a written record of the important information regarding a patient, including the care of that individual and the progress of his or her condition. |
medical record format | the source-oriented record and the problem-oriented record. |
objective symptom | a symptom that can be observed by another person and by the patient. |
PPR | a medical record in paper form |
patient | an individual receiving medical care |
physical examination | an assessment of each part of the patient's body to obtain objective data about the patient that assists the physician in determining the patient's state of health |
physical examination report | a report of the objective findings from the physician's assessment of each body system |
problem | an condition that requires further observation, diagnosis, management, or patient education |
prognosis | the probable course and outcome of a disease and the prospects for a patients recovery |
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 |
SOAP format | a method of organization for recording progress notes, the SOAP format includes the following categories: subjective data, objective data, assessment, plan |
subjective symptom | a symptom that is felt by the patient but is not observable by an examiner |
symptom | any change in the body or its functioning that indicates the presence of a disease |