しんりょうろく
noun
medical record; patient chart
formalmedicalhealth
1. medical record; patient chart; clinical record
The record a doctor is required to keep of a patient's examinations, diagnoses, and treatment. This is the legal and administrative term; in day-to-day hospital speech the same thing is called カルテ.
診療録(しんりょうろく)記入(きにゅう)する
The doctor writes it in the medical record.
診療録(しんりょうろく)五年間(ごねんかん)保存(ほぞん)すること義務(ぎむ)づけられている
Medical records are required by law to be kept for five years.
Patients can request disclosure of their own medical records.
The introduction of electronic medical records has made exchanging information between hospitals easier.

Composed of 診療(しんりょう) (medical examination and treatment) plus (ろく) (record). The suffix (ろく) names formal written records generally: 議事録(ぎじろく) (minutes), 記録(きろく) (a record).

Common collocations

Similar words

  • カルテ: chart — from German Karte; the everyday word inside hospitals
  • 病歴(びょうれき): medical history — the patient's past illnesses, not the document itself