| Code | Display | Definition |
| admission-record |
Admission record |
The structured record made when a patient is taken onto a ward: presenting illness, the examination on admission, and the plan the admission starts from. |
| triage-record |
Triage record |
The sheet a patient is sorted on at the front door — how urgently they need to be seen, and the signs that decided it. |
| clinical-assessment |
Clinical assessment |
A structured assessment by one service, completed once per episode: palliative, nutrition, psychological, rehabilitation intake and the like. |
| scored-instrument |
Scored instrument |
A form whose output is a score rather than a set of findings — Bishop, Apgar, Glasgow, MUAC-based screens. Scored instruments are kept apart from assessments because the score is comparable over time and a free assessment is not. |
| observation-chart |
Observation chart |
Vital signs and physiological observations charted round by round through an admission. |
| monitoring-chart |
Monitoring chart |
A chart tracking one device or one therapy over time — ventilator, CPAP, dialysis, neurological observations, a chemotherapy cycle. Distinct from an observation chart because the columns are settings and responses to a treatment rather than the patient's own vitals. |
| fluid-balance-chart |
Fluid balance chart |
Intake and output charted over a shift or a day, with the totals that decide the next fluid order. |
| feeding-chart |
Feeding chart |
What a patient — usually a baby — was fed, when, how much and by what route. |
| nursing-care-plan |
Nursing care plan |
The nursing problem list with the care planned against each problem and the evaluation of it. |
| medication-chart |
Medication chart |
A prescription or an administration record: what was ordered or given, at what dose, by what route. |
| wound-care-record |
Wound care record |
Dressing changes, irrigation and the state of a wound or a surgical site over time. |
| rehabilitation-record |
Rehabilitation record |
Therapy given and progress against it, session by session — physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy. |
| progress-note |
Progress note |
A dated clinical entry continuing the record of a stay: doctors' notes, ward round entries, review notes. |
| procedure-record |
Procedure record |
The record of a procedure actually performed — the operation note, the anaesthetic chart, the endoscopy record. |
| recovery-record |
Recovery record |
Observations and care in the recovery period immediately after a procedure, before the patient goes back to a ward. |
| safety-checklist |
Safety checklist |
A checklist completed to confirm a step was taken before, during or after a procedure. Its value is the record that somebody checked, which is why an unfilled box is a finding rather than a blank. |
| handover-record |
Handover record |
What one team tells the next about a patient at a shift change or a transfer between units. |
| referral |
Referral |
A patient sent on to another unit or facility, with the history and the reason for sending them. |
| discharge-summary |
Discharge summary |
The account of a completed admission that the patient leaves with and the next clinician reads. |
| requisition |
Requisition |
A request to another department for a test, an image, a blood product or a supply. |
| consent |
Consent |
A record of permission given or refused for a procedure, a treatment, a disclosure or a disposal. |
| clinical-report |
Clinical report |
A report on a patient written for someone outside the treating team — an insurer, a court, another hospital, a mortality review. |
| mortuary-record |
Mortuary record |
Admission to, release from, or a consent connected with the mortuary. |
| survey |
Survey |
A questionnaire whose answers are about the service rather than about the patient's health, and which produces no clinical resource. |