The terminal course
Every order, result, note and vital sign from the final admission in strict order, down to the minute.
citedNewMissing Records Detection: flags every visit, provider, and date missing from the file. See how →
- Solutions
- Case types
- Wrongful death
The last 48 hours of the chart decide the case. Read them hour by hour.
Medrecords AI rebuilds the final admission hour by hour, then sets the death certificate, the autopsy and the toxicology beside it. Where they disagree, the conflict is flagged with both pages. Causation stays with your experts.
- HIPAA, under a BAA
- SOC 2
- 100 pages a minute
- First case is free on us
1 admission, 2 record setstap a point
Final admission
Death records
12 Mar 2025Death certificateDeath records
Part I: cardiac arrest due to coronary artery disease.
Illustrative case. The patient, times and pages are fictional. The final 24 hours are drawn wider than the days after.
4lines
Part I of the US standard death certificate has 4 lines for the chain of events leading to death.
CDC, National Center for Health Statistics1underlying cause
The cause on the lowest used line of Part I. It is what the death is coded to.
CDC, National Center for Health Statistics2claims
Most states split a death case into a wrongful death claim for the family and a survival claim for the estate.
State statutes100pages a minute
How fast Medrecords AI reads the file.
Medrecords AI
Where wrongful death cases turn
Final admission Final admission Final admission Death records Death records Both
6 places the defense looks first. The chronology gets you there before they do.
The person who could explain what happened is gone. The chart has to do it. These are the points where the case gets decided, each flagged with its page.
The missed signal
Findings that went without a response, with the time they posted and the time of the next action.
flaggedConscious pain and suffering
Every entry that shows the patient was awake, in pain or afraid, quoted with the time. The survival claim rests on it.
conscious painCertificate against autopsy
The certified cause of death set beside the autopsy findings. A mismatch is flagged with both pages.
conflictsToxicology
Every result, with the collection time and the specimen, quoted as written.
citedThe records that never arrived
The autopsy photos, the code sheet, the transfer records a note mentions. Listed with the page that points to each one.
missing-records list
Sample output
What comes back: the final admission and the death records, every line cited.
| Date | Source | Finding | Page | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Mar 2025, 09:15 | Emergency department | Chest pain spreading to the back. Troponin normal. Admitted for observation. | p. 12 | cited |
| 4 Mar 2025, 14:30 | Nursing note | Pain 9/10. Blood pressure 182/104 right arm, 148/90 left arm. | p. 30 | flagged |
| 4 Mar 2025, 21:00 | Hospitalist note | Likely musculoskeletal. No CT angiogram ordered. | p. 41 | cited |
| 5 Mar 2025, 03:40 | Nursing note | Patient crying out in pain, asking for family. | p. 52 | conscious pain |
| 5 Mar 2025, 06:12 | Code record | Code blue called. | p. 58 | cited |
| Date | Source | Finding | Page | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Mar 2025 | Autopsy report | Type A aortic dissection with blood around the heart. | p. 71 | cited |
| 12 Mar 2025 | Death certificate | Part I: cardiac arrest due to coronary artery disease. | p. 80 | conflicts with p. 71 |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Toxicology | Negative. | p. 84 | cited |
Fictional case built for this page. Real output carries the same columns, with every page linked to the source PDF.
How it works
Send the file. Get 1 timeline back.
What you send
- Hospital, EMS and physician records from the final illness
- The death certificate, autopsy and toxicology reports
- Earlier records that show health before the event
- Billing records for the final care
- Any format: PDFs, scans, faxes, phone photos
What you get
- A strict, page-cited chronology of the final admission
- The death certificate and autopsy side by side
- Every entry bearing on conscious pain and suffering
- Medical and funeral expenses, each cited
- A list of records the file refers to but does not contain
We lay out the record. Your experts say what caused the death.
We assemble and cite what the chart, the certificate and the autopsy say. We do not certify or correct a cause of death, say that care fell below the standard, or value the claim. Those belong to your medical experts and you.
HIPAA, under a signed BAAEvery file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement.
SOC 2Encryption in transit and at rest, and PHI access logging on every event.
Never trains a modelYour records never train any AI model, ours or anyone else’s.
Deleted on requestRetention is configurable and deletion is on request, with an audit log of every access.
Questions
Wrongful death record review, answered.
Do you say what caused the death?
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.
How is the survival claim supported?
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.
What if the death certificate and the chart conflict?
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.
Do you retrieve records from providers?
No. Medrecords AI does not retrieve records from providers or facilities. You bring the records you already have, and review starts in minutes from upload. Retrieval vendors take days. You can keep yours and still cut the review to minutes.
Related case types
Send us 1 wrongful death file. The first case is free on us.
Book a short demo. After it we open trial access on one of your own cases, the first one free on us, with the timeline back page-cited.
Field guides
- Nursing home wrongful death: proving the chain from care to cause of deathNursing home wrongful death cases turn on the chart: the death certificate, rare autopsies, hospice and DNR…
- How to read an autopsy report: findings, opinions and the file behind themRead an autopsy report section by section: external and internal exam, toxicology, cause, mechanism and manner…
- Toxicology reports in litigation: how to read clinical and postmortem results without losing the caseHow to read a toxicology report for litigation: immunoassay screens versus GC-MS confirmation, serum alcohol…