Practice tip of the week: Ensuring accurate documentation

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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?

Click here to read the rest of the article and be sure to check back next week for another Tip of the Week!

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