A patient is received on a nursing unit as a transfer from the telemetry unit,and the HUC is informed that the patient's old records are missing.The most likely place for staff to find the missing records would be the:
A)health information management systems (HIMS)department.
B)risk management office.
C)floor from which the patient was transferred.
D)patient's doctor's office.

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All thinned records,old records (if paper charts are used),and x-rays should be sent with the patient to the receiving unit.If these records are not received,the transferring unit would likely still have them.

A Patient Is Received on a Nursing Unit as a Transfer