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?
I have over 10 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 in a variety of disciplines, including:
-addictions
-cardiology
-chiropractic care
-clinical psychology
-functional capacity
-infectious disease
-neurology
-neuropsychology
-ophthalmology
-orthopedics
-otolaryngology
-physiatry
-podiatry
-psychiatry
-rheumatology
-speech-language pathology
I offer customizable, confidential, and secure editing services. My 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?
I have over 10 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 in a variety of disciplines, including:
-addictions
-cardiology
-chiropractic care
-clinical psychology
-functional capacity
-infectious disease
-neurology
-neuropsychology
-ophthalmology
-orthopedics
-otolaryngology
-physiatry
-podiatry
-psychiatry
-rheumatology
-speech-language pathology
I offer customizable, confidential, and secure editing services. My 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.