In plain English
This means asking the provider or organisation that holds a patient's medical information to provide those records. It names the ask for the records, not the records themselves.
In context
Here, "record request" labels the ask made to the records department for a patient's medical records held by the organisation.
- Situation
- Managing records, consent forms, proxies, privacy, and information release
- What it communicates
- labels the workflow for asking the records department for records.
Meaning limits
The term itself does not identify who is making the request or specify which records are being asked for.
Examples
“The hospital received a record request, but the patient's chart had not been sent yet.”
“At the records department, a record request for the patient was waiting on the desk.”