AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Children with Special Healthcare Needs

SERIES: 7817
TITLE: Electroencephalogram tracings
DATES: 1959-1964.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical

DESCRIPTION: These are duplicate copies of EEG Tracings made as part of a complete physical examination of participants in the Handicapped Children's Services program. The records include the EEG chart, EEG Requisition, and occasionally a narrative report of the test results, the child's name, sex, address, and age; the date of the test; the test conditions (if patient awake or asleep); the type and amount of medication given with the test; the patient's chart number; and a provisional diagnosis.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

APPROVED: 10/1986

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office until no longer administratively valuable and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

Administrative

As this information is duplicated in the patient's medical chart, there is no need to keep this copy past its administrative value.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Private

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