MEDICAL RECORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical record mean? 

• MEDICAL RECORD (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL RECORD has 1 sense:

1. the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL RECORD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL RECORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

anamnesis; medical history; medical record

Hypernyms ("medical record" is a kind of...):

case history (detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment)

Meronyms (parts of "medical record"):

family history (part of a patient's medical history in which questions are asked in an attempt to find out whether the patient has hereditary tendencies toward particular diseases)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): hospital record number, medical record number

(Biologic Entity Identifier Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

These charts are your medical records.

(Personal Health Records, NIH)

A proprietary charge capture, documentation and electronic medical record system for radiation oncology.

(ONCOCHART Management Tool, NCI Thesaurus)

Having copies of medical records and death certificates is also helpful.

(Family History, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Some are guaranteed by federal law, such as the right to get a copy of your medical records, and the right to keep them private.

(Patient Rights, NIH)

NOTE(S): This condition may have been recalled by the subject or a caregiver or provided in their medical record.

(Performed Medical Condition Result, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

An automated, on-line medical record containing clinical and demographic information about a patient that is available to providers, ancillary service departments, pharmacies, and others involved in patient treatment or care.

(Electronic medical record, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): This case history may have been recalled by the subject or a caregiver or provided in their medical record.

(Performed Medical History Result, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A research study in which the medical records of groups of individuals who are alike in many ways but differ by a certain characteristic (for example, female nurses who smoke and those who do not smoke) are compared for a particular outcome (such as lung cancer).

(Historic cohort study, NCI Dictionary)

EXAMPLE(S): medical record number.

(Biologic Entity Identifier with Attribute Identifier, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)