Are medical records in their current form a liability?
The Audit Commission in its publication entitled "Setting the Record Straight - A study of Hospital Records" - HMSO July 1995 states that "badly organised medical records do endanger patients". Much emphasis is placed regarding the safe storage and retrieval of medical records in order, for example, to guarantee that in respect of an incident 15 years ago involving a neonate, that medical records, results etc. are easily retrievable.
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