Medical-Legal Quality Assurance
Medical expert witnesses have the tall order of producing clear, credible, and compelling medical-legal (medicolegal) reports that are helpful to the court.
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:
Why should you hire a medical-legal editor?
How can I help you produce quality expert witness reports?
As your medical-legal quality assurance analyst, here are some ways I could help:
Why hire me as your medical-legal report editor?
I have over 12 years of experience analyzing, fact-checking, editing, and proofreading independent medical examinations (IMEs), file reviews, medical-legal reports, clinical reports, insurer examinations, and Workers’ Compensation reports. My specialties are forensic psychiatry and psychological assessment reports. I have also worked with an array of medical professionals in other disciplines, including:
I offer customizable, confidential, and secure editing services to help you produce expert witness reports that are clear, credible, and helpful to the referrer.
Contact me at [email protected] for more information and to obtain a quote.
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:
- 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 and easy to read
Why should you hire a medical-legal editor?
- It will save you time. Having a medical-legal QA analyst on your team to crosscheck your report’s summaries and contents against the medical records and proofread the report for typos and inconsistencies will allow you to devote more time to the work you love—practicing medicine.
- It will enhance the quality and credibility of your reports. Having a complete, accurate, coherent report written in clear wording appropriate for your audience will add weight to your opinion as an expert witness.
How can I help you produce quality expert witness reports?
As your medical-legal quality assurance analyst, here are some ways I could help:
- Big-picture editing and quality assurance
- Medical record analysis and fact-checking
- Ensure questions in referrer letter are addressed and clearly answered
- Ensure history is in a logical flow
- Flag glaring inconsistencies in the presentation of facts
- Sentence-level editing and polishing
- Smooth out awkward phrasing
- Plain language editing of technical jargon
- Ensure grammar, punctuation, and spelling are accurate and consistent
- Ensure consistency in formatting and editorial style
- Proofreading final draft for typos and formatting errors
- 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?
I have over 12 years of experience analyzing, fact-checking, editing, and proofreading independent medical examinations (IMEs), file reviews, medical-legal reports, clinical reports, insurer examinations, and Workers’ Compensation reports. My specialties are forensic psychiatry and psychological assessment reports. I have also worked with an array of medical professionals in other disciplines, including:
- Addictions
- Cardiology
- Chiropractic care
- Clinical psychology
- Functional capacity
- Infectious disease
- Internal medicine
- Neurology
- Neuropsychology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Otolaryngology
- Physiatry
- Podiatry
- Rheumatology
- Speech-language pathology
I offer customizable, confidential, and secure editing services to help you produce expert witness reports that are clear, credible, and helpful to the referrer.
Contact me at [email protected] for more information and to obtain a quote.
Are you an editor interested in working with medical expert witnesses? Check out my training webinars on medical-legal report editing: