Table 1.

Table 1. Document Workflow Rules, Derived from Examples in the Text

An unfinished admission note can be viewed only by the document author.

An oncology consultation note is mailed to the referring physician only when it has been cosigned by the attending.

A consultation note is mailed to a referring physician when it has been cosigned by the attending physician.

Preliminary phase (unauthenticated) documents are viewable within a in patient's electronic record if you make the effort to look in the patient's EMR system record (e.g. an ER physician), but are not delivered to the electronic inbox until authenticated.

The document author may edit an unsigned document.

Unsigned documents can be edited by the author and expected signers (but not by others).

A document must be signed by the author.