While Performing Routine Quantitative Analysis of a Record, a Medical

question 1244

Multiple Choice

While performing routine quantitative analysis of a record, a medical record employee finds an incident report in the record. The employee brings this to the attention of her supervisor. Which best practice should the supervisor follow to deal with this situation?

• A) remove the incident report and send it to the patient.
• B) tell the employee to leave the report in the record.
• C) remove the incident report and have nursing personnel transfer all documentation from the report to the medical record.
• D) refer this record to the Risk Manager for further review and removal of the incident report.

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