Patient journey

Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| Two reversals corrected: the European follow-up duty binds the home state, and data portability largely does not cover public hospital records Personal Health Records Verified against primary record Defining features Patient-maintained, with the individual controlling access; this is what separates it from a provider-held record[1] Legal status of … Read more

Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| A live staging-edition divergence found between two national datasets published weeks apart Pathology Reports Verified against primary record Structured content model Core elements, essential for clinical management, staging or prognosis and requiring a defined evidence level, plus non-core elements[1] International harmonisation goal One internationally agreed dataset per tumour … Read more

Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| The sharing architecture read directly, showing that the report travels as a document and the images only as a pointer Radiology Reports Verified against primary record Report structure Clinical referral, technique, findings, impression or conclusion, and advice, with the report checked and signed[1] Prior studies The reporter should … Read more

Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| Checked whether any standard requires the report to be given to the patient, and found that none does Operative Reports Verified against primary record Minimum content in United States federal rules Techniques, findings, and tissues removed or altered; written or dictated immediately after surgery and signed by the … Read more

Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| Checked the national guideline’s own stated exclusions, and found the medical-travel literature documents the opposite of shared decision-making Shared Decision-Making Verified against primary record Reference definition A collaborative process in which a person and their clinician reach a joint decision, selecting tests and treatments on both evidence and … Read more

Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 10 sources| The three-part typology traced to its origin and to two sources that reproduce it, since the original could not be opened Continuity of Care Verified against primary record Strongest legal guarantee in cross-border care The treating state must give the patient a medical record, or at least a … Read more

Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| Searched for any instrument recognising a foreign referral and found none Clinical Referral Verified against primary record Who may refer, in England An enumerated list of coded sources including general practitioners, emergency departments, consultants, optometrists, screening programmes and self-referral[1] Referral as a timing event A consultant-led waiting-time clock … Read more

Unreviewed Written 13 October 2026| 8 sources| The German procedure list taken from the committee that sets it, not from the ministry page that is out of date Second Medical Opinions Verified against primary record Statutory entitlement, Germany Before certain planned procedures, from a doctor other than the one proposing it, with the sickness fund … Read more

Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 4 sources| England’s person-centred care regulation does not use the word cultural; its guidance does Medical Tourism and Cultural Competence Verified against primary record The principal standard Care and services that respond to cultural health beliefs, languages, health literacy and other communication needs[1] Its stated purpose To promote health, improve … Read more

Unreviewed Written 9 October 2026| 5 sources| An open-access metadata search returned no study pairing this with medical tourism Medical Tourism and Health Literacy Verified against primary record Personal health literacy The degree to which individuals can find, understand and use information and services to inform health decisions[1] Organizational health literacy The degree to which … Read more