The Patient-Centered Approach to Medical Note-Writing

Patients are increasingly accessing their own electronic health record, ushering medical chart notes out of the cloistered purview of clinicians and into the age of transparency. With the recognition that patients are reading what is written about them, there is a need for a comprehensive reference on best practices for writing medical notes in this new era.   T he Patient-Centered Approach to Medical Note-Writing  covers important topics including stigmatizing language, the elect