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Red Flags When Evaluating Medical Records September 2005

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Jacqueline Joseph, BA, CDE Red Flags When Evaluating Medical Records

By: Jacqueline A. Joseph, B.A., CDE

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When you have a suspicious record or handwritten entries, the following clues should alert you to the need for a document examiner and/or handwriting expert:

  • Crowding or squeezing in of words.
  • Writing words around existing entries.
  • Change in slant, pressure, and uniformity of handwriting.
  • Presence of erasure, eradication, or obliteration.
  • Use of two or more inks to write one entry which normally would be written with one pen/ink.
  • Reaction of lines intersecting folds, holes, or paper tears.
  • Improper sequence of intersecting ink lines.
  • Shadow writing (impressions or lack of impressions/ink on next page.
  • Alignment variation on margins.
  • Use of medical forms not manufactured or printed until after the date of entries.
  • Use of later year, if it appears several times and has been corrected.
  • Variation of folds, stains, and tears when comparing one page with another.
  • Unnatural order of writing and undue uniformity of margins, ink, arrangement.
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Jacqueline Joseph, B.A., CDE is a proficiency tested, board certified document examiner. As a practicing handwriting investigator since 1992, she is the owner of Accurate Document Examiners, a forensic science laboratory in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of numerous published papers and has given expert witness testimony in court, arbitrations and depositions. She welcomes your call. 1-800-698-8954 www.jjhandwriting.com.

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