How long should records be kept? Although states may have different guidelines or laws, The Doctors Company recommends the following: Adult patients, 10 years from the date the patient was last seen. Minor patients, 28 years from the patient's birth. Deceased patients, five years from the date of death.
Medical Definition of ADLs (activities of daily living) ADLs (activities of daily living): The things we normally do in daily living including any daily activity we perform for self-care such as feeding ourselves, bathing, dressing, grooming, work, homemaking, and leisure. The ability or inability to perform ADLs can be used as a very practical measure of ability/disability in many disorders.
Realtors(R) use a lot of jargon in every day conversations and online â so when you see the acronym âMLS,â you may wonder what it means. In the real estate world, âMLSâ does not refer to the soccer league â it stands for Multiple Listing Service. The Multiple Listing Service is the fancy name for the online system where all the real estate brokers enter their new properties for sale. In industry speak, new properties for sale are called âlistings,â thus they called the Multiple Listing Service (or System).