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What is the importance of maintaining good medical records?

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Dr KK Aggarwal & Advocate Ira Gupta    28 June 2019

The importance of maintaining good medical records are:

  1. Communicates vital information about a patient’s history and health status
  2. Act as basis of planning and continuing medical treatment
  3. Serve as source of information about the quality of care rendered to patient
  4. Records consents, refusal, referrals, etc.
  5. Serve as a source of information for Mediclaim (insurance) related cases.
  6. Serve as a source of Research and Education
  7. Provides evidence on whether care rendered met the professional standard of care

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