Protecting Your Present and Future: Legal Issues, Being a Witness, EMR Documentation

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society Annual Conference (Philadelphia, PA)

6.5.18

Errors and omissions in medical documentation can lead to problems in the delivery of medical care, but they can also lead to problems in defending subsequent litigation even when the care itself was properly rendered.

Debra Weinrich and Ed Beitz, Partners in the Healthcare Group, will identify common documentation errors and omissions that are often seized upon by plaintiffs attorneys in litigation, strategies to avoid them, and how to deal with any documentation problems in deposition.