Chart Peer Review Records

Warning

Do not follow the records retention schedule to destroy records that are currently part of–or you are aware that they are going to be part of–any legal action or proceeding, litigation, audit, investigation, or review. For more information, see the Subpoenas for University Records Policy.

Schedule Number
1020

Document Medical Director’s review of staff’s work, demonstrating quality assurance of care provided at Health Service. 

Chart Peer Review Records info
Record HolderRetention PeriodDisposition
Official Copy Health Service

Last patient encounter +10 years.  

Exception: If the patient is a minor on the date of the last patient encounter, the retention period is last patient encounter + 10 years or until the patient reaches 18 years of age, whichever longer. 

Confidential destruction

Unofficial Copy N/A

N/A

N/A

Notes

These records are managed separately from student medical records. 

References
260 M.G.L. § 4
Approved
Health Service, Office of Information Security, University Counsel, and Tufts Archival Research Center
Effective Date