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Restraint or seclusion; Electroconvulsive and other forms of convulsive therapy; Psychosurgery or other surgical procedures that alter or intervene in an emotional, mental, or behavioral disorder; (d) Other special treatment procedures for children and adolescents. Indications for use of blood products must be documented in the medical record. 5. REPORTS OF PROCEDURES, TESTS AND THE RESULTS OPERATIVE/INVASIVE REPORTS A comprehensive operative/invasive procedure report must be dictated or written immediately following a surgical or invasive procedure. If dictated, a brief operative/invasive progress note must be hand written in the medical record immediately after surgery in order to provide pertinent information for use by any practitioner required to attend the patient. The dictated operative/invasive procedure report must contain the pre and postoperative diagnoses, the name of the primary surgeon and any assistants, the procedure performed, a detailed description of the procedure performed, to include the technical procedure used, the findings, the specimens removed, estimated blood loss, amount of any blood transfused, complications, patient's condition on leaving operating room. The operative progress note must contain the pre and postoperative diagnoses, the name of the primary surgeon and any assistants and the procedure performed. PATHOLOGY REPORTS The pathologist is responsible for the preparation of a descriptive diagnostic report of gross specimens received from surgical procedures and of autopsies performed. These reports will be signed by the pathologist and made part of the medical record. RADIOLOGY REPORTS The radiologist is responsible for the preparation of all radiology reports of examinations performed. These reports shall be signed by the radiologist and made a part of the medical record. July 2009 Medical Staff Rules & Regulations 11
CONCLUSIONS DIAGNOSES No abbreviations or symbols may be used in recording diagnoses and operative/invasive procedures performed. All diagnoses and operations should be recorded using acceptable disease and operation terminology. FINAL DIAGNOSES The patient may not leave the hospital until the principal and additional or associated diagnoses, established by the time of discharge as much as possible, have been recorded. In the sequence of final diagnoses, the first should explain the reason for the patient's admission to the hospital. The final diagnosis should also include any complications occurring during hospitalization. These, as well as all operative procedures performed, should be recorded on the cover sheet of the medical record and/or in the Clinical Resume and signed by the physician, dentist, or podiatrist. CLINICAL RESUME Clinical Resume or Discharge Summary shall be recorded for all medical records of patients at the termination of their hospitalization (see exceptions below) and signed by the responsible physician, dentist, or podiatrist. The Clinical Resume should concisely recapitulate the reason for hospitalization, the significant findings, the procedures performed and treatment rendered, final diagnoses, the condition of the patient on discharge (stated in terms that permit a specific measurable comparison with the condition on admission, avoiding the use of vague relative terminology, such as "improved"), and any specific instructions given to the patient and/or family, as pertinent, including instructions relating to physical activity, medication, diet and follow-up care (when preprinted instructions are given to the patient, the record should so indicate and a sample of the instruction sheet in use at the time should be on file in the Health Information Management Department). A Clinical Resume is required on all patients who expire and should indicate the events leading to death. A final progress note may be substituted for the Clinical Resume on medical records of patients with problems of a minor nature who require less than a 48-hour period of hospitalization, and in the case of normal newborn infants and uncomplicated obstetrical deliveries. The final progress note should include any instructions given to the patient and/or family. July 2009 Medical Staff Rules & Regulations 12
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