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Article 24

第二十四条

When a medical practitioner has provided medical care, the medical practitioner must enter the matters related to that medical care in a medical record without delay.

医師は、診療をしたときは、遅滞なく診療に関する事項を診療録に記載しなければならない。

Medical records as set forth in the preceding paragraph must be kept for a period of five years by the administrator of the hospital or clinic where medical care was provided by a medical practitioner works at that hospital or clinic, and by the medical practitioner themselves for medical records related to other medical care.

前項の診療録であつて、病院又は診療所に勤務する医師のした診療に関するものは、その病院又は診療所の管理者において、その他の診療に関するものは、その医師において、五年間これを保存しなければならない。

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