Is a nurse’s note made contemporaneously by someone who had a personal knowledge of the matters then being recorded contemporaneously?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v Clarke, 2016 ONSC 575 (CanLII):

Hall, J., as he then was, held: Hospital records, including nurses’ notes, made contemporaneously by someone having a personal knowledge of the matters then being recorded and under a duty to make the entry or record, should be received in evidence as prima facie proof of the facts stated therein. This should, in no way, preclude a party wishing to challenge the accuracy of the records or entries from doing so. … [Ares v. Venner, at p. 362, my emphasis]

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