PPR Full Form in Medical term is Patient Progress Record. As its name suggests, PPR is a medical report or record where doctors or health professionals enter details to document the clinical status or achievements of a patient during a period of hospitalization or during outpatient care.
It can be prepared in a wide range of details and formats, depending on the clinical situation the clinician wishes to record the information. Both nurses and physicians write PPRs to document patient care at regular intervals during a patient’s hospitalization.
Patient progress records serve as a record of events during patient care, enabling physicians to compare current status, opinions, and plans to previous records among medical care team members and physicians, to communicate findings serves for, and much more. PPR prepared by nurses or physicians should be easily understood, readable, accurate, concise and complete. They must also be flexible enough to logically explain to others what happened during the meeting.