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Sidebar - Documented, But Was It Done?
Statutes & Stethoscopes: Sidebar - Documented, But Was It Done?
A hospitalist who does peer reviews told me: a lot of the time I'm looking at a beautiful note, everything is there, and I'm not sure any of it actually happened. Then he asked what weight the chart really holds.
In this Sidebar: why the chart comes into evidence as a business record (Pennsylvania Rule of Evidence 803(6)) but is evidence, not proof; two cases where the jury had to weigh the chart against a witness, Hall v. University of Maryland Medical System and Grauer v. Clare Oaks; the red flags that catch…
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