chapter 14
Terms
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- power of attorney
- A legal instument authorizing one to act as the attorney or agent of the grantor.
- provisional diagnosis
- A temporary diagnosis made before all test results have been recived.
- alphanumeric
- Of or relating to systems made up of combinations of letters and numbers.
- pressboard
- A strong highly glazed compostion board resembling vulcanized fiber
- objective information
- Information that is gathered by wathing or obersvation of a patient.
- gleaned
- Gathered bit by bit
- alphabetical filing
- Any system that arrages names of topics according to the sequence of the letters in the alphabet.
- vested
- Granted or endowed with a particular authoirty, right, or property; to have a special interest in.
- quaility control
- An aggregate of activities designed to ensure adequate quaility, exspecially in manufactured products or its the service industries.
- augment
- To make greater; more numerous, larger, or more intense.
- direct filing system
- A filling system in which materials can be located without consulting an intermediary source of reference.
- obliteration
- Act of making undecipherable or imperable or imperceptible by obscuring or wearing away.
- caption
- A heading title, or subtiltle under which records are filed.
- subjective information
- Information that is gained by questioning the patient or take from a form.
- chronologic order
- Of, relating to or arranged in or according to the order of time.
- transcription
- To make a writtin copy of, either on longhand or by maching.
- shelf filing
- A system that uses open shelves rather than cabinets for storing records.
- audit
- A formal examination of an organization or individual's accounts or finalcial situations; a methodic examination and review.
- shingling
- A method of filing whereby one report is laid on top of the older report, resembling the shilgles of a roof.
- microfilm
- A film bearing a photographic record on a reduced scale of printed pr other graphic matter
- indirect filling system
- A filing system in which an intermediary source of reference, such as a card file
- retention schedule
- A method or plan for retaining or keeping medical records, and thier movement from active, to inactive, to closed filing.
- dictation
- The act or manner of uttering words to be transcirbed
- procrastination
- The intentional postpoment of doing something that should be done.
- continuity of care
- Constitinunation of care smoothly from one provider to another, so that the patient recieves the most benifits and no interruption in care.
- numeric fillng
- The filling of records, correspondence, or cards by number.
- outguide
- A heavy guide that is used to replace a folder that has been temporarliy moved from the filing space.
- outfolder
- A folder used to provide space for the temporary filing of materials
- requisities
- Entities considered essential or neccessary.
- tickler file
- A chronologic file used as a reminder that something must be takeen care of on a certain date.