Identify five purposes for the medical record.
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Required by licensing authorities and provides a format for tracking, documenting, and maintaining a patient's communication; (2) documentation of continuing health care; (3) provides a foundation for managing a patient's health care; (4) serves as a legal document in lawsuits, and (5) provides clinical data for education, research, statistical tracking, and assessing the quality of health care.
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