Malpractice Timeline Maker
Paste medical-record text, or drop a .txt or text-layer PDF, and get a dated, page-cited table of what the record says happened: admissions, discharges, ER visits, procedures, consults, transfers, codes, every study, every out-of-range lab, and medication changes. Nothing is generated. A fixed set of patterns finds the events the record states outright and pairs each with the nearest date on the same page; if a date is not on a page, it is not in the table. Your text is scanned in memory and discarded, so there is no account to make and nothing is stored.
1. Paste the record
2. Your timeline
| Date | Event | Type | Page |
|---|
Rows are sorted by date, then page. Undated rows are events found on a page with no readable date: check the page. Page numbers are physical PDF pages for a PDF; for pasted text they follow form feeds, "Page N of M" lines or Bates stamps, else 2,500-character blocks.
How to read it
Each row is a citation, not a summary
The Event column shows the exact words that matched (for example "presented to the ED", "echocardiogram — EF 35–40%", "Troponin 0.09 ng/mL (H)") plus the sentence around them. The Page column is where to open the record to confirm it. Read the page before you rely on the row.
What it looks for
- Encounters: admission, discharge, ER visit, transfer, consult.
- Interventions: surgery or procedure, intubation or code, medication started, stopped or changed.
- Studies: echo (with EF), CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, cath, EKG, stress test, monitor, endoscopy, biopsy or pathology.
- Abnormal labs: troponin, BNP, creatinine, potassium, sodium, hemoglobin, WBC, platelets, INR, lactate and glucose that the record flags or that fall outside the reference range printed next to them.
- Outcome: fall or injury, time of death.
What it will not do
It does not infer a date from context, does not merge duplicate entries across pages, does not judge whether care met the standard, and does not read scanned images. A visit that appears as a narrative paragraph with no date on that page will be missing or listed as undated. Those gaps are the job of a reviewer, and of the full tools below.
Need the whole production, with Bates links?
The Timeline Builder indexes every PDF in a case, OCRs scans, keeps the physical page and Bates number on every entry, and lets you annotate and export the chronology for an expert or a demand.
Open Timeline BuilderHave a question the timeline does not answer?
Ask the Record pulls every value of a lab, every study of a kind, every visit with a provider, or every page with a phrase, across the whole case, each row cited to file, page and Bates.
Try Ask the RecordFree Malpractice Timeline Maker by MedLegal AI. Not legal or medical advice. Do not paste records you are not authorized to hold; the text is processed in memory and discarded. See also the case timeline template and the other free tools.