Medical-Legal Quality Assurance
A well-written medical-legal (medicolegal) report can help the court gain a clear clinical picture of an individual at the centre of a case. If you have been asked to provide your opinion as an expert witness for the court, you know how crucial it is to conduct a thorough assessment and produce a high-quality report. Your credibility as an expert witness and even as a healthcare professional can be affected by the quality of your written report.
What constitutes a quality medical-legal report?
An expert witness report that is helpful to the court is one that:
How can hiring a medical-legal editor help you to produce quality reports?
Hiring a qualified medical-legal editor can save you valuable time. As a busy medical professional, you likely have an extremely demanding schedule and do not have the time to go through the claimant’s records a second time to crosscheck your report’s contents and proofread it for typos and inconsistencies. Having a medical-legal QA analyst on your team will allow you to devote more time to the work you love—treating patients.
Additionally, having a complete, accurate, coherent report written in clear wording appropriate for your audience—without distracting errors and inconsistencies—will add weight to your opinion as an expert witness.
As your medical-legal quality assurance analyst, here are some ways I could help:
Why hire me as your medical-legal report editor?
My team (of two) has a combined total of nearly 20 years of experience analyzing and proofreading independent medical examinations (IMEs), file reviews, medical-legal reports, clinical reports, insurer examinations, and Workers’ Compensation reports in a variety of disciplines, including:
-addictions
-cardiology
-chiropractic care
-clinical psychology
-dentistry
-functional capacity
-future care
-infectious disease
-neurology
-neuropsychology
-occupational therapy
-ophthalmology
-orthopedics
-otolaryngology
-physiatry
-podiatry
-psychiatry
-rheumatology
-speech-language pathology
We offer customizable, confidential, and secure editing services. Our specialty is helping medical experts produce reports that are clear, credible, and helpful to the referrer.
Contact me at jahleen@maplewoodeditorial.com for more information and to obtain a quote.
What constitutes a quality medical-legal report?
An expert witness report that is helpful to the court is one that:
- presents the history in a logical flow
- presents foundations for opinions in a persuasive and systematic manner
- explains complex medical and technical concepts in understandable terms
- is clearly worded
- is accurate in facts and details
- is consistent in style and mechanics
- is clear of spelling and grammatical errors
- is well formatted
How can hiring a medical-legal editor help you to produce quality reports?
Hiring a qualified medical-legal editor can save you valuable time. As a busy medical professional, you likely have an extremely demanding schedule and do not have the time to go through the claimant’s records a second time to crosscheck your report’s contents and proofread it for typos and inconsistencies. Having a medical-legal QA analyst on your team will allow you to devote more time to the work you love—treating patients.
Additionally, having a complete, accurate, coherent report written in clear wording appropriate for your audience—without distracting errors and inconsistencies—will add weight to your opinion as an expert witness.
As your medical-legal quality assurance analyst, here are some ways I could help:
- fact-checking and medical record analysis
- analyze the claimant’s medical records and crosscheck with report content
- flag missing records and insert into report
- ensure questions in referrer letter are addressed and clearly answered
- structural/organizational considerations
- ensure history is in chronological order
- suggest graphics to explain complex concepts
- ensure visual hierarchy makes structure clear
- produce a table of contents
- stylistic editing
- reduce or explain technical jargon
- smooth out awkward phrasing
- edit for tone and level of formality
- tighten text by eliminating unnecessary words
- copy editing
- ensure grammar, punctuation, and spelling are accurate and consistent
- ensure consistency in editorial style
- ensure tables, charts, and other visual elements are presented consistently
- check pagination and figure and table numbering for accuracy
- proofreading
- analyze final draft for typos, inconsistencies, and formatting errors
- report writing assistance
- transform raw and point-form interview notes and behavioural observations into organized, shining prose
- convert nonclinical test results and questionnaire responses into paragraph form
- summarize detailed reviews of client records
- weave together a timeline and narrative using information extracted and condensed from background documents (e.g., intake forms, questionnaires, medical records, interview notes)
Why hire me as your medical-legal report editor?
My team (of two) has a combined total of nearly 20 years of experience analyzing and proofreading independent medical examinations (IMEs), file reviews, medical-legal reports, clinical reports, insurer examinations, and Workers’ Compensation reports in a variety of disciplines, including:
-addictions
-cardiology
-chiropractic care
-clinical psychology
-dentistry
-functional capacity
-future care
-infectious disease
-neurology
-neuropsychology
-occupational therapy
-ophthalmology
-orthopedics
-otolaryngology
-physiatry
-podiatry
-psychiatry
-rheumatology
-speech-language pathology
We offer customizable, confidential, and secure editing services. Our specialty is helping medical experts produce reports that are clear, credible, and helpful to the referrer.
Contact me at jahleen@maplewoodeditorial.com for more information and to obtain a quote.