Adverse Events in Physiotherapy
Fainting during treatment or a burn from a modality: how to log an adverse event so the entry documents the facts instead of reading as an admission.
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Medical Documentation
Patient card, therapy plan, treatment register - mandatory physiotherapist documentation. Ready-made templates and checklists to download.
The Patient Health Interview
PESEL, conditions, medications, occupation: which data in a health questionnaire is legally required, which is clinically justified and which is excess.
A Patient Requests Their Medical Records
Who can request medical records, in what form to release them, within what deadline and how much it costs. When you may refuse and which mistakes to avoid.
Authorization to Access Medical Records
Who has the right to a patient's health information and records, how authorization for information differs from authorization for records.
Dry needling and manual therapy
Can a physiotherapist perform dry needling and manual therapy? Required courses, informed consent, procedure records, liability insurance and adverse events.
Electronic medical documentation (EDM)
Mr. Tomasz has run a physiotherapy practice in Poznan for seven years. Until now, patient records lived in binders and the treatment log was a notebook.
Archiving medical records in physiotherapy
After five years of running his practice, Piotr had a cabinet full of patient records and no idea what to do with them.
Working with doctors
A patient with shoulder pain walks into Mr Rafał's practice and asks outright: "Do I need a referral from a doctor for you to see me?
Patient consent to a physiotherapy
When verbal consent is enough and when you need it in writing, what a valid consent must contain and why information about risk is the element that decides.
Medical Documentation in Physiotherapy
As a physiotherapist, you don't just perform treatments. You also keep medical documentation -- and that's a legal requirement, not an option.
How to keep a physiotherapy patient record
A patient record isn't just paper to fill in -- it's medical documentation that protects both you and the patient.
First Patient Visit Documents
GDPR notice, patient record, procedure consent, authorization and additional consents - the order to collect documents at a first visit.
Your EMR System Crashes Mid-Day
An EMR outage does not suspend your duty to document a visit. What to write on paper as a minimum and how to move it back into the system once it is restored.
Extended Informed Consent
When a standard verbal treatment consent isn't enough and the law requires written form - shockwave therapy, dry needling, HVLA manipulations.