This document contains a 10 question true/false assignment about medical record keeping practices. It addresses issues like correcting errors, maintaining patient privacy, using abbreviations, documenting treatments accurately, and only accessing protected health information as needed for patient care. Keeping timely, accurate records is identified as important for patient care and legal reasons. Certain practices like omitting details to avoid liability or inappropriately sharing patient information would violate privacy standards.

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Delivered to Dr.Ola Khashaba
Assignment (2)MR
1(Choose True or False as an answer to the following:(
1. In correcting a medical record, it is necessary to completely obliterate the inaccurate
entry to avoid unnecessary confusion.
True ( ) False ( )
2. Patient care is the first reason to keep timely, accurate, and complete medical records.
True ( ) False ( )
3. An order written for a medication Q.D. is appropriate if the medication is to be taken
daily.
True ( ) False ( )
4. Nurse leaving message on patient's answering machine, "Mr. Jones, the doctor would
like to reschedule your appointment for a prostrate exam," is a violation of patient's
privacy.
True ( ) False ( )
5. When a patient's medical file becomes too bulky to handle, it is advisable to begin a
new file for that patient.
True ( ) False ( )
6. If too much oxygen has been given to a premature baby, it is advisable to omit from the
medical record how much oxygen was given so it is more difficult to prove his or her
case.
True ( ) False ( )
7. It is permitted to use abbreviations in the medical records.
True ( ) False ( )
8. The adult daughter of an elderly patient is in the room when the doctor comes in to
review the patient’s test results. The patient introduces his daughter and then asks
about the test. The doctor proceeds to explain the results in front of the patient’s
daughter. The doctor violated privacy by talking about the test results with the daughter
present in the room.
True ( ) False ( )
9. One of the privileges of working in healthcare is that we have access to our friends and
families protected health information (PHI) so we know when they have an illness
True ( ) False ( )
10. The computerized billing information is a more accurate summary of the medical care
rendered a patient than the medical record.
True ( ) False ( )
Dr.Ola Gamal Khashaba,MD,CPHQ,TQM 1