Logical Record Architecture for Health and Social Care

Discharge Summary Release 0.02

Requirements Specification for Clinical Narrative

Opportunity to describe any additional significant information in narrative form. Could include, for example, exceptional circumstances related to lack of consent to treatment, etc. Requirement Reference: A Clinician’s Guide to Record Standards – Part 2: Standards for the structure and content of medical records and communications when patients are admitted to hospital (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, October 2008).

Clinical Narrative

Business Definition

Very brief narrative description of the in-patient episode. Should include complications and nutritional status. (A Clinician’s Guide to Record Standards – Part 2: Standards for the structure and content of medical records and communications when patients are admitted to hospital (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, October 2008). Opportunity to describe any additional significant information in narrative form. Could include, for example, exceptional circumstances related to lack of consent to treatment, etc.

Requirement Reference

A Clinician’s Guide to Record Standards – Part 2: Standards for the structure and content of medical records and communications when patients are admitted to hospital (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, October 2008).

Proposed Data Values

Free text.

Data Use

Patient information, continuing care.

Data Source

New entry.