What should not be included when ensuring the accuracy of patient documentation?

The focus on ensuring the accuracy of patient documentation emphasizes the importance of maintaining comprehensive, timely, and correct medical records. This includes aspects such as completeness, which means all necessary information must be included, and timeliness, which refers to the documentation being recorded when the patient encounter occurs for it to be relevant and useful in care and legal matters.

Collation with lab reports, although it is essential in ensuring that the patient’s clinical picture is complete, does not fall under the strict categories of ensuring documentation accuracy. Collation refers specifically to the act of comparing or aligning documentation with lab results, which is indeed necessary for clinical decision-making but isn't directly about the inherent accuracy of the patient documentation itself.

Hence, while both completeness and timeliness directly contribute to the accuracy of the patient documentation, collation with lab reports is more about reconciliation and follow-up than the core elements of ensuring documentation accuracy.