According to the "medical institutions, medical records management regulations" Article 29: outpatient (emergency) clinic medical records kept by the medical institution, the preservation of time from the date of the patient's last visit to not less than 15 years; hospitalization medical records preservation of time from the date of the patient's last hospitalization and discharge of not less than 30 years.
Medical institutions applying for sealing of medical records, medical institutions shall inform the patient or his agent *** with the implementation of the sealing of medical records; but the patient or his agent refuses or gives up the implementation of the sealing of medical records, the medical institution can be notarized in the notary public notarization of the medical records to confirm the notarization of the notary public signing and sealing of the medical records of the duplicate.
Preservation of medical records:
1. The medical institution may adopt micro-technology that meets the requirements of archive management to preserve the paper medical records after processing;
2. When the name of the medical institution is changed, the medical records in custody shall be continued to be kept by the medical institution after the change;
3. After the revocation of the medical institution, the medical records in custody may be kept by the provincial health planning and family planning administrative department, Chinese medicine administration department or the provincial health planning and family planning administration department. Administrative department of health planning, Chinese medicine management or provincial health planning administrative department, Chinese medicine management department designated institutions in accordance with the provisions of proper storage.
Expanded information:
Outpatient medical records are, in principle, the responsibility of the patient to keep. Medical institutions have built outpatient medical records archives or have established outpatient electronic medical records, the patient or his legal representative agreed, his outpatient medical records can be maintained by the medical institution responsible for.
Inpatient medical records by the medical institution is responsible for custody; outpatient medical records by the patient custody, the medical institution should be examined and test results in a timely manner to the patient's custody.
Outpatient medical records kept by the medical institution, the medical institution shall receive the results of the examination and test results within 24 hours after the examination and test results will be categorized or entered into the outpatient medical records, and at the end of each diagnostic and therapeutic activities within the first working day of the outpatient medical records filed.
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