Checking the note for medicolegal omissions

After End, Rebrief reads the finished note against the whole visit. It looks for details a dental records review would expect but the note does not have. The anesthetic, consent, isolation and post-op instructions are typical examples. Each one it finds appears in the note as a faded line, and you decide whether to add it.

What it looks for

Rebrief suggests a line only when all of these are true.

• The visit implies it. A composite implies etch and bond, for example.
• Nothing in the visit mentions it.
• Nothing said in the visit contradicts it.

It suggests at most three lines for a note. Most notes get none.

The chip on the note's bar

A chip with a shield on the note's bar shows where the check stands.

• Before End it reads Checks for medicolegal omissions at End.
• While the check runs, its dot pulses and it reads Checking for medicolegal omissions…
• With nothing missing, it reads No medicolegal omissions found, with a green dot.
• With lines waiting, it reads something like 2 medicolegal omissions to check, with a red dot.

On a narrow note, the chip uses shorter words or just the shield.

Select the chip while it has lines waiting. Rebrief takes you to the first faded line.

Adding or skipping a line

Each suggested line sits in the note where it belongs, in faded text. At its end are a shield, Add and Skip.

• Point at the shield to read why Rebrief suggests the line.
• Add makes the line part of your note, as your own words.
• Skip removes the line.

From the keyboard, Tab adds a line and Esc skips it. The keys act on the line that shows them beside Add and Skip. If the line joins a numbered list, the steps renumber.

Adding a line is your word that it happened. Read each line, and only add what was really done.

Good to know

• A faded line is not part of the note until you add it. It is not saved, and Export leaves it out.
• The check reviews the note on the Note tab. Notes written on your templates are not checked.
• If you select Regenerate after End, Rebrief checks the rebuilt note again.
• If the chip reads Check for medicolegal omissions, the check hasn't run on this note yet. Select the chip to run it now.