DUTIES OF MEDICAL RECORDS DEPARTMENT
- Provides clinical data for research and education.
- Assists in protecting the legal interest of the patients, physicians and the hospital
- Provides a means of communication between the physician and other professionals contributing to the patients care.
- Serves as a basis for planning individual patients care.
- Serves as a basis for analysis, study and evaluation of the quality of care rendered to the patients.
- Assists in the designing of forms for hospital use.
- Assists in the quantitative analysis of patients care.
- Registration of Deaths.
- Preparation of Hospital statistics on monthly, quarterly and annually to the Federal Ministry of Health.
- Coding and indexing of patients diagnoses.
- Issuance of new cards to patients.
- Storing and retrieval of patients case notes.