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17 Cards in this Set
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What is the means by which the facts of a case are proved or disproved? |
evidence |
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What is the internal destruction, mutilation, alteration or concealment of evidence? |
spoilation |
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What is issued by the court if there is a concern that info may be destroyed in cases of current litigation, audit, or gov. investigation? |
Legal Hold |
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What is real tangible or clear evidence of a fact, happening or thing that requires no thinking or consideration to prove its existence? |
Direct Evidence |
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What is evidence in a trial which is not directly from an eye-witness or participant and requires some reasoning to prove a fact? |
Circumstantial Evidence |
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What evidence is actual objects, pics, models, and other devices that are supposedly intended to clarify the facts for the judge and jury? |
Demonstrative Evidence |
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What as a general rule is not admissible as evidence unless one of several hearsay exceptions applies? |
Hearsay Rule |
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What are the means through which occurrences that are inconsistent with a healthcare facility's routine patient care practices or operations are documented? |
Incident reports |
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Should incident reports be put in the patients health record? |
No |
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What is data about data that resides outside the record that is normally released upon request? |
Metadata |
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What is evidence having a tendency to make the existence of any fact more probable or less probable? |
Relevant evidence |
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What is a type of tort in which the defendant does not necessarily intend to cause harm but harm is a foreseeable consequence of his or her conduct? |
Negligence |
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A rule under which in order to prove the contents of a writing, recording, or photograph, the original writing, recording, or photograph is required? |
Best Evidence rule |
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What is a rule under which a record is determined not to be hearsay if it was made at or near the time by, or from info transmitted by a person with knowledge, and it was kept in the course business? |
Business records exception |
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What is a civil wrong for which the law provides a remedy in the form of a lawsuit to recover damages? |
Tort |
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When can health info be used for evidence? |
in cases involving custody, civil cases, criminal cases |
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This defines the process of e-discovery by using terminology that is meaningful to both healthcare providers and vendors? |
Electronic Discovery Reference Model |
