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How Does Medical Document Review Benefit Medico-Legal Claims?

Medical documents of a plaintiff play a crucial role in proving medical malpractice. Even slight traces of negligence found in medical charts can be pivotal in turning the tides in these claims. Thousands of pages of medical documents should be analyzed to locate the evidence, which could be a herculean task for the legal representatives of the plaintiff.

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How Does Medical Document Review Benefit Medico-Legal Claims?

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  1. Accurate Medical Document Review for Medical Malpractice Cases Medical documents of a plaintiff play a crucial role in proving medical malpractice. Even slight traces of negligence found in medical charts can be pivotal in turning the tides in these claims. Thousands of pages of medical documents should be analyzed to locate the evidence, which could be a herculean task for the legal representatives of the plaintiff. Professionals experienced in doing medical document review have vast expertise in both medical and legal fields. Their scrupulous analysis can scan the documents for negligence. Let it be in the physician medical charts, lab results, therapy documents surgical records, discharge notes or future recommendations for treatment and work, no pieces of information is left unchecked. A document reviewer diligently go through the voluminous and complicated medical records, organize them and them chronologically arrange the vital facts. This sequential garlanding of facts helps the attorneys in locating the facts in order and do a cross-reference to the original documents with ease. Medical documents or clinical charts usually contain complicated medical terminologies and abbreviations that may not be intelligible to the legal professionals. There may be handwritten or illegible notes to among the heft medical documents too. Document reviewers with experience in handling even illegible and hand written documents can easily simplify the vital facts in the documents. They even convey the essence of the complex medical terminologies in an easily perusable language. Negligence can be traced out from the medical documents charted by different healthcare professionals like physicians, physician assistants, registered nurses or Kiara Liam

  2. assistant surgeons. When the same event is narrated by different people, hints of negligence can surface. It can prove if the physicians deviated from standard care or not. Only a person with a keen eye for details dig out these hints. Traces of treatment gaps, inconsistencies in medical documentation, irrelevant diagnosis and treatment can support the malpractice claims. If medical document tampering is attempted, that too can be dug out through a thorough medical document review. Accessing medical records with sensitive patient data for document review is not that easy. Compliance to privacy laws like HIPAA can make retrieval of patient charts difficult. An experienced document review team will have resources to make retrieval of patient charts effortless and less complicated. They can organize, index and hyperlink the retrieved charts to the review reports for easy navigation. Unearthing crucial evidence from medical records can be easy for the attorneys, if shouldered with an experienced medical document review team. They can make the tiresome task a breeze in less time and lesser cost. A medical document review company like LezDo TechMed provides precise document reviews for handling medical malpractice cases. Kiara Liam

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