Legal basis: Regulations on Handling Medical Accidents
Article 8 Medical institutions shall write and properly keep medical records in accordance with the requirements stipulated by the administrative department of health of the State Council. Due to the rescue of critically ill patients, the medical records cannot be written in time, and the relevant medical personnel shall supplement the facts within 6 hours after the rescue, and make records.
Article 10 Patients have the right to copy or duplicate their outpatient medical records, inpatient medical records, temperature sheets, doctor's orders, laboratory tests (inspection reports), medical image examination data, special inspection consent, operation consent, operation and anesthesia records, pathological data, nursing records and other medical records as stipulated by the health administrative department of the State Council. If a patient requests to copy or duplicate medical records in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the medical institution shall provide copying or duplicating services, and affix the certification mark on the copied or duplicated medical records. When copying or duplicating medical records, patients should be present. At the request of patients, medical institutions can copy or duplicate medical records for them, and can charge fees according to regulations. The specific charging standards shall be formulated by the price departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government in conjunction with the health administrative departments at the same level.