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Know if providers are meeting standard of care, even if clinical outcomes may appear otherwise.

One of the downsides to the electronic health record (EHR) is that it generates hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pages of records for virtually every hospital encounter. When engaging MDReview for an external review project, our clients often ask why it’s necessary to send all medical records in addition to other items we often request, such as pre- and post procedure office notes and any preoperative, intraoperative, or postoperative imaging.

A well-respected, senior surgeon with an outstanding reputation and decades of successful practice in a major metropolitan area, was given a complaint that he was performing surgeries that were unnecessarily aggressive and not clinically indicated.