2008 Florida Code
TITLE XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 395 HOSPITAL LICENSING AND REGULATION
PART I HOSPITALS AND OTHER LICENSED FACILITIES (ss. 395.001-395.3041)
395.3015 Patient records; form and content.
395.3015 Patient records; form and content.--Each hospital operated by the agency or by the Department of Corrections shall require the use of a system of problem-oriented medical records for its patients, which system shall include the following elements: basic client data collection; a listing of the patient's problems; the initial plan with diagnostic and therapeutic orders as appropriate for each problem identified; and progress notes, including a discharge summary. The agency shall, by rule, establish criteria for such problem-oriented medical record systems in order to ensure comparability among facilities and to facilitate the compilation of statewide statistics.
History.--ss. 26, 30, ch. 82-182; ss. 30, 98, ch. 92-289.
Note.--Former s. 395.016.
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