Patient Records: the Law

Patient Records: the Law
Exercise 1:
Fill in the blanks with information from the text:
1- Entries in records must be frequent, especially ____________.
2- The advantages of computer technology are______________.
3- _____________ apply to computer records as they do to manual ones.
4- Patients do not have the right to _____________.
Exercise 2:
Answer each of these questions in a complete sentence:
1) Which things can be used as evidence in a law court?
2) What is the legal duty of medical staff?
3) Why is it important to keep records if the condition of the patient does not appear to change?
4) Why must any computer system that is used be secure?
Exercise 4:
Translate the following paragraph into Arabic:
Patients do not have the right to limit the amount of information that goes in their records but they do have the right to limit access to them.
Exercise 5:
Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the list below. There are more options than required:
Diary, care plan, complaint, medical negligence, evidence, deviation, bulky, and confidentiality
1. The doctor was sued for ___________.
2. __________ items will be collected separately.
3. I’ll make a note of our next meeting in my __________.
4. They signed a ___________ agreement.
5. There is convincing__________of a link between exposure to sun and skin cancer.
6. The most common ___________is about poor service.
7. The fathers must protect their children from sexual __________.