Practice tip of the week: Ensuring accurate documentation

With all the useful information available on Physicians Practice, it is easy to become overwhelmed.

With this in mind, the tip of the week is a chance to reflect on some of the wisdom found all across the site. In this April 2021 story on ensuring documentation accuracy Jennifer Frank, MD gives this tip:

Never use a copy forward note

It just begs to be wrong. It is so easy to pull in a ton of information that was accurate three months ago but which is no longer true. Are you really going to carefully edit that content to make sure it is accurate?

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