Question | Answer |
Attending Physician | The physician responsible for the care of a hospitalized patient. |
Charting | The process of making written entries about a patient in the medical record. |
Consultation report | A narrative report of an opinion about a patient's condition by a practitioner other than the attending physician. |
Diagnosis | The scientific method of determining and identifying a patient's condition. |
Diagnostic procedure | A 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 | A medical record that is stored on a computer. |
Familial | Occurring in or affecting members of a family more frequently than would be expected by chance. |
Health history report | A collection of subjective data about a patient. |
Informed consent | Consent given by a patient for a medical procedure after he or she has been informed about the procedure. |
Inpatient | A patient who has been admitted to a hospital for at least one over night stay or 24 hours. |
Medical impressions | Conclusions drawn by the physician from an interpretation of data. Other terms for impressions include provisional diagnosis and tentative diagnosis. |
Medical record | A written record of important information regarding a patient, including the care of that individual and the progress of the patient's condition. |
Medical record format | They way a medical record is organized. The two main types of medical record formats are the source-oriented and problem-oriented. |
Objective symptom | A symptom that can be observed by an examiner. |
PPR | A medical record in paper form. |
Patient | An individual receiving medical care. |
Physical examination | An assessment of each body part of the patient's body to obtain objective data about the patient that assists the physician in determining that patient's state of health. |
Physical examination report | A report of the objective findings from the physicians assessment of each body system. |
Problem | Any condition that requires further observation, diagnosis, management, or patient education. |
Prognosis | The probable course and outcome of a disease and the prospects for a patient's recovery. |
Reverse chronological order | Arranging documents with the most recent in the front. |
SOAP format | Subjective, Objective, 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 disease. |