Prise en charge à domicile et le dossier médical

A “mini” patient file is established whenever a multidisciplinary team intervenes in a home-care setting, simply in order to ensure information exchange between the healthcare attendants. Where should this file be kept? In the patient's home? In this case, the healthcare institution would have no document or information sheet concerning the patient's evolution. What would happen if the family decides to make a claim? At the present time, there is no legal regulation concerning the property of this medical file, but logically, the file would be the property of the healthcare structure or institution involved, the patient having a right to access to the file.