In short
Changing a medical record afterwards is the two copies of the same page not carrying the same sentences. Not every addition is forgery. A correction should show by whom and at what time it was made. If there is no trace, it is asked whether the addition was written during the procedure or afterwards. Asking for the file once is not this comparison itself. A damages figure and statistics are not in this article.
Why two copies are kept
The patient may ask for a copy of the discharge summary and the nursing notes with a patient file application. If the copy taken first and the copy that comes later conflict, the sentence that was added or deleted is marked. A single copy does not show that the text never changed. If the electronic record has a user and time column, that column speaks more than a stamp of a handwritten correction. If there is no column, the conflict is still read.
If there is a risk of dispersal or deletion, a finding may also be asked for separately. The finding route is in the preservation of evidence article. A finding does not bind as a judgment that the text is a lie. If the document carries the date on which it was obtained, that date speaks. If there is no date, the words "old copy" are not enough by themselves.
The trace of a correction
A correction may stand with the deleted word remaining readable, or with an electronic trace. If there is a trace, the addition may be a correction made during the procedure. If there is no trace, the order has to be asked. The question does not declare every traceless line forged. A decision is not built before the two copies are seen.
The petition writes the conflicting sentence side by side. A claim that is not written side by side stays in a general distrust. If the nursing note and the physician's note carry different sentences at the same time, both are kept. One does not make the other forged by itself.
How the two copies are read
The copies of the same page taken on two dates are compared sentence by sentence. Not every addition is treated as forgery by itself. A damages figure and statistics are not written. The address of the Çankaya office does not change the hospital where the record was kept, or the competent authority. The institution is read from the name under the discharge-summary heading.
The difference that comes out also asks which line changed the result. If the difference is a small spelling, it is not read at the same weight. If the difference changes the discharge note or the count line, that line is marked. The mark does not by itself finish the medical meaning.
Missing, and different
A page that was not given is not a page that was changed. The missing list is asked for separately. An answer that there is no file does not mean the text was changed. If the two mix in the same petition, it is not separated which claim will be examined. The application asks for the missing page and the conflicting sentence separately.
A figure later crossed out on the count form stands apart in a claim of a foreign body. That form is in the forgotten material article. The discharge note changing afterwards may intersect with the question of an early discharge. That note is in the early discharge article. The medical meaning of the line is not rewritten here.
If there is a trace, and if there is none
The question of whether a record is changed afterwards does not close without two copies. If the two copies carry the same sentence, a claim of change is not built for that page. If another page conflicts, the conflict is written as specific to that page. The whole file is not announced as changed because of one line. The announcement carries the name of the page that was compared. If there is no name, the claim stays in a general distrust.
If the electronic column has a user name and a time, this column is read apart from a stamp put by hand. If the column says correction, which word the correction changed should stand on the line. If it does not stand, which word changed is not invented. If the handwritten stamp has no time, the stamp does not by itself finish the order. The order is asked from the dates of the two printouts. If there is no date either, the question of order stays open. A question that stays open does not build a judgment of forgery.
Even if the missing page and the changed line arrive in the same envelope, they are asked for separately in the petition. If they are not asked for separately, the examination may take the page that was not given for a page that was changed. This assumption should not be built without a comparison. The comparison does not produce a damages figure either. What is produced is which sentence stands differently in the two copies.
Conclusion
A change of record is read from the two copies and from the trace of the correction. Not every addition is forgery. An Ankara lawyer does not melt the two copies into one sentence. The request for the file comes before this comparison. The frame is on the health law page.
The basis is Law No. 1219.