Medical Narrative Summary

Medical narrative summary services is a concise report that provides a summary of all the medical treatment in a manner that is easy to understand. Our Medical Narrative Summary helps an attorney to better focus or other important aspect of a case and assists to settle a case. It is a brief flow of events in the patient’s medical history and help to understand the overall case in a short format. Medical narrative summary services help in preparing a deposition or while preparing a case for trial.

A medical narrative summary also includes the patient’s personal information, such as his age, gender, height, and weight (if needed). This information acts as an identifier of the patient for the references during the medico-legal case. The narrative summary’s chronological format helps establish the sequence of events to support the case. This is used for the determination of the causation for an injury or medical event.

Health Gloss Legal Services’ summary highlights every major medical treatment including office visit, hospitalizations, physical therapies, chiropractic, consultations, diagnostics, procedures/surgeries, and major lab reports in chronological order. The focus of our narrative summaries targets all the injuries sustained due to the current accident and the pre-existing injuries or medical conditions that were exacerbated due to the current accident. Moreover, our narrative summary generally focuses on positive findings rather than normal findings.

Salient Features of Narrative Summary:

• Easy to understand and concise

• Medical events in Chronological order

• Summary in story telling format

• Suitable for pre-deposition and demand letter preparation

Approach: Our team has experience in preparing powerful summaries of records for patients involved in varying types of incidents, including but not limited to, motor vehicle accidents, pedestrian accidents, burns, dog bites, assault, emotional and sexual harassment, falls, and construction accidents. We create narrative summaries that capture all the major events that define the course of a case including, diagnostic procedures, office visits and consultations, therapy visits, and other pertinent medical records in chronological order.

The Narrative Summary will focus on all the injuries sustained due to the accident and the pre-existing injuries that were exacerbated or aggravated due to the accident.

How is an Effective Medical Narrative Summary prepared?

Data review
To write an effective medical narrative summary, the data involved is first reviewed according to the client’s case. The information will be thoroughly assessed by the medical experts and the reviewed data is mapped out according to the patient’s medical history for the attorney to understand it better.

Quality check
The data in the medical narrative summary will become more effective if there is a proper quality check by the medical experts. The data is matched with the original source documents to understand its relevance in the medical narrative summary, and any mistakes or elaboration of irrelevant data is immediately discarded or corrected.

Overall calibration
The final step in an effective medical narrative summary involves calibrating the data in the proper format required. The medical experts will review the overall document to ensure the zero-error policy followed by Health Gloss Legal Services. The calibrated data will then be prepared in the final format required for the case.

Where is a Medical Narrative Summary used?

Depositions
A medical narrative summary is of key importance in a deposition. When information is being collected in a deposition, it is important for the attorney to present the deponent with a proper summary of the events leading up to the case. A medical narrative summary thus helps in conducting an effective deposition before the trial.

Preparing a case for trial
A medical narrative summary helps the attorney understand the case before preparing it for trial. It can also help him understand if any medical malpractice case is due to actual negligence or coincidence, and to obtain any missing information from the patient before the case goes to trial.

Law and motion practice
A medical narrative summary can help in preparing a motion to grant time to collect more information before the case moves forward. In situations where a medical narrative summary highlights missing information, this is an imperative document which can induce the judge to pass the motion and lend more time to the attorneys to obtain key information.