# Wrongful Death Record Review > Wrongful death and survival action record review: the terminal course, certified cause of death and autopsy findings in one page-cited chronology. Canonical page: https://medrecords.ai/solutions/wrongful-death-record-review/ --- New — **Missing Records Detection:** flags every visit, provider, and date missing from the file. [See how →](https://medrecords.ai/product/missing-records-identification/) [Home](https://medrecords.ai/) ›[Solutions](https://medrecords.ai/solutions/) › — Wrongful Death Record Review WRONGFUL DEATH RECORD REVIEW ## The last 48 hours of the chart decide the wrongful death case. Wrongful death record review services build the cited chronology a survival and wrongful death claim rests on: the terminal hospital course hour by hour, the certified cause of death, the autopsy and toxicology findings, and the conscious pain and suffering the record documents. Causation stays with your experts. [Test a file ](https://medrecords.ai/test-a-file/?src=wrongful-death-record-review) [Book a demo](https://medrecords.ai/demo/) Click any row → the source page it cites Death chronology · Case #IME-4812 documented Adams, Timothy · decedent file 342 pp / 2 packets received logged 11 duplicate pages removed free p.140 — wrong patient quarantined Pages 342 Documents 27 Cited 100% ### Death certification follows a published handbook. So does the autopsy. We do not build for a case type until we can name the standard that defines a correct output and the person who grades the file against it. In wrongful death litigation, both are already published. The standard and the referee The rulebook - The forum state’s wrongful death and survival statutes, which define who may recover and which damages survive the decedent - The CDC and National Center for Health Statistics Physicians’ Handbook on Medical Certification of Death, which governs how the cause-of-death chain is stated on the certificate - The National Association of Medical Examiners Forensic Autopsy Performance Standards, which set out what a complete autopsy examination and report contain - Fed. R. Evid. 702 as amended in December 2023, under which any competing cause-of-death opinion has to be reliably applied to this record The referee - The certifying physician or medical examiner, whose stated causal chain the case either adopts or has to overcome - The trial court at a Rule 702 hearing on any expert opinion that departs from the certified cause of death - The probate court in the survival action, which measures conscious pain and suffering against what the record actually documents A survival claim argued without the hour-by-hour terminal record behind it From 10¢ to as low as 5¢/page here, duplicates free Death chronology · Case #IME-4812 cited 100% Packet — 342 pp / 2 packets · 11 deduplicated — logged Terminal course — Reconstructed hour by hour from the chart — cited Cause-of-death chain — Carried verbatim from the certificate — cited Certificate and chart conflicts — Where the two do not agree — flagged Chronology delivered · cited 100% · no cause-of-death opinion How it works ### 3 steps between the file and the chronology. 01 #### Send the decedent file Hospital records, nursing flowsheets, code documentation, the death certificate, the autopsy and toxicology reports, and prior treatment records, in any format. 02 #### We return the chronology, page-cited The terminal course hour by hour, the certified causal chain, the autopsy findings, and every documented observation of consciousness and distress. 03 #### Your experts take it from there Causation, standard of care and the value of the survival claim are theirs. The chronology is the record all sides will argue from. The boundary, in writing ### A chronology of the record, not an opinion on how the death happened. We reconstruct and cite what the chart, the certificate and the autopsy report document. We do not state a cause of death, contradict the certifier, opine on whether care fell below the standard, or value the survival claim. Those belong to your retained experts and to the court. In the demo case, page 140 turned out to belong to a different patient. In a death file that error moves a vital sign into the wrong terminal course, so it is quarantined rather than reconciled quietly. Audit trail · Case #IME-4812 exportable 08:12 — Packet received · 342 pp / 2 packets — system 08:31 — 11 pages deduplicated — system 08:44 — p.140 flagged — wrong patient — system 08:54 — Death chronology complete · chronology delivered · cited 100% — system 09:20 — Death chronology reviewed · citations verified — reviewer 09:26 — Death chronology exported · trial chronology assembled by counsel — reviewer Every access logged · file deleted 30 days after delivery Why Medrecords AI ### The rules the platform never breaks. EVERY LINE CITED CASE #IME-4812 · ADAMS, T. 342 pp 2/14 — ER visit, right knee p.4 4/18 — arthroscopic surgery p.61 p.140 — wrong patient quarantined Medrecords AI Read every page · cite every line #### HIPAA, under a signed BAA Every file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement, from the first byte. #### Never trains a model Your records are never used to train any AI model — ours or anyone else's. #### Every line cited If we can't cite it, we don't say it. Every sentence links to its source page. #### Deleted after delivery Files are deleted 30 days after delivery, with a full audit log of every access. Powered by the platform ### 7 capabilities behind every death chronology. The death chronology is one deliverable of the same platform that reads, sorts, and cites the whole record. [ #### Medical Records OCR Every page read in full, including the nursing flowsheets and code sheets where the terminal hours are actually recorded. IN ACTION · 342 pp / 2 packets, read in full ](https://medrecords.ai/product/ocr/) [ #### Medical Chronology The terminal course assembles itself from timestamps across departments, so the last hours read as one sequence. IN ACTION · admission → time of death, one timeline ](https://medrecords.ai/product/chronology/) [ #### Verifiable AI Citations Every entry links back to its page, including the ones that contradict the certificate. IN ACTION · chronology → cited 100% ](https://medrecords.ai/product/citations/) [ #### Medical Summary Reports It exports into your trial chronology or expert packet in your format. IN ACTION · chronology → trial exhibit ](https://medrecords.ai/product/summaries/) [ #### Medical Record Deduplication Forty charts pulled from multiple practices and EHR migrations carry their share of duplicate visit notes. Each is matched and collapsed to one canonical record, so the prescribing pattern is read once per real encounter. IN ACTION · 40 charts → duplicate visit notes collapsed to 1 record each ](https://medrecords.ai/product/medical-record-deduplication/) [ #### Missing Records Identification A prescribing pattern read across 40 charts is only as sound as the file behind it. When a chart references a visit, refill, or referral that never made it into the production, the gap is flagged before the pattern goes to the board. IN ACTION · prescribing pattern cross-checked → gaps flagged before submission ](https://medrecords.ai/product/missing-records-identification/) [ #### Cross-Exam Simulator A board investigator or defense counsel builds a case from the chart abstraction. This tool maps the questioning a physician facing that hearing is likely to face on the gaps and pattern in their own record. A rehearsal tool, not legal advice. IN ACTION · prescribing pattern → likely hearing questions mapped ](https://medrecords.ai/product/cross-exam-simulator/) FAQ ### Wrongful death record review, answered. No. We carry the certified cause-of-death chain verbatim, place the autopsy and toxicology findings beside it, and flag where the chart and the certificate disagree. A competing cause-of-death opinion is expert testimony, offered under Rule 702 by a qualified physician. By what the record documents about consciousness and distress: charted pain scores, responses to voice and stimulus, medication administered, and nursing observations, each with its timestamp and page, so the claim rests on entries rather than on inference. The conflict is flagged in its own state with both pages cited. We do not resolve it. It is usually the most consequential fact in the file, and it belongs in front of counsel and the expert rather than smoothed over in a summary. No. Medrecords AI does not retrieve records from providers or facilities. You bring the records you already have — review starts in minutes from upload. Retrieval vendors take days; you can keep yours and still cut the review to minutes. ### Send one file. We'll tell you what we can read. No obligation. If the case type is buildable we'll scope it; if it isn't, we'll say so. 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