Legal Nurse Consultant Case Screening for Attorneys
Legal Nurse Consultant Case Screening for Attorneys
Understand the medical facts before committing significant time and resources to a case.
Enlightened Legal Nurse Consultants provides professional case screening and preliminary medical record review for attorneys handling medical malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death, nursing home negligence, and other medically complex litigation.
Our clinical review helps identify significant findings, potential concerns, missing information, and medical issues that may require further investigation or expert evaluation.
Our approach
Start With the Medical Facts
Before investing significant time, resources, and expert fees into a medically complex case, you need a clear understanding of what the medical records actually show.
Medical documentation can span hundreds or thousands of pages across hospital records, physician notes, nursing assessments, EMS reports, laboratory results, diagnostic imaging, medication administration records, operative reports, and specialist consultations. Within those records may be critical details that help clarify what happened, when it happened, and how the patient's condition progressed.
Enlightened Legal Nurse Consultants provides focused medical case screening to help attorneys identify and understand those details.
We review the available medical documentation to establish the sequence of care, identify significant clinical findings, recognize potential concerns, and uncover questions that may warrant additional investigation or review by an appropriate medical expert.
Our goal is to transform a complicated medical record into a clearer clinical picture that helps your legal team determine the appropriate next steps.
Our approach
What Is Legal Nurse Consultant Case Screening?
Case screening is a focused clinical review designed to help attorneys evaluate the medical aspects of a potential or developing case before proceeding with more extensive analysis.
Rather than beginning with a comprehensive review of every detail, case screening focuses on understanding the patient's medical history, alleged injury, treatment, progression of care, and outcome.
The review may identify important clinical events, potential delays in care, changes in patient condition, inconsistencies within the documentation, relevant preexisting conditions, missing records, and other issues that deserve closer examination.
When appropriate, case screening can also help identify questions that should be addressed by a physician or other specialty medical expert.
Our approach
What We Look For During Case Screening
Timeline of Care
We establish the sequence of significant medical events to understand what happened, when it happened, and how the patient's condition progressed throughout treatment.
Changes in Patient Condition
Symptoms, vital signs, laboratory values, diagnostic findings, nursing assessments, and other clinical documentation are reviewed for significant changes, deterioration, or improvement in the patient's condition.
Potential Clinical Concerns
We identify areas of care and documentation that may warrant closer examination or evaluation by an appropriate medical expert.
Delays in Diagnosis or Treatment
The medical record is examined for potential delays involving assessment, diagnostic testing, treatment, consultation, transfer, or escalation to a higher level of care.
Causation & Medical History
Relevant medical history, preexisting conditions, prior treatment, subsequent care, and other factors are identified to help attorneys better understand issues that may affect causation and damages.
Missing or Conflicting Documentation
We identify gaps in the medical record, conflicting documentation, incomplete information, and additional records that may be necessary to develop a clearer understanding of the case.
Expert Legal Narratives
Transforming complex medical records into understandable legal reports.