Identify five purposes for the medical record.
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Required by licensing authorities and provides a format for tracking, documenting, and maintaining a patient's communication; (2) documentation of continuing health care; (3) provides a foundation for managing a patient's health care; (4) serves as a legal document in lawsuits, and (5) provides clinical data for education, research, statistical tracking, and assessing the quality of health care.
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When using EHR software, the electronic superbill:
A) can be done in conjunction with charting B) requires fees to be manually entered individually for each procedure for each patient C) can only exist as a single version D) must be created using separate billing software
RVS is the abbreviation for
A. resource volume size. B. relative volume size. C. resource value scale. D. relative value scale.
A modified single-stage reducing valve is similar to a single-stage reducing valve with the exception of:
A) It can deliver higher pressures. B) It has a larger outlet. C) It has a larger inlet. D) It has a poppet closing spring.
Which of the following is true regarding the WBC count reference ranges?
A. In conventional units, the range for adult females is 4-5.5 
106/µL.
B. In SI units, the range for the adult male is 4-5.5 
1012/µL.
C. In SI units, the reference range for an adult is 4-11 
109/L.
D. For an adult, the reference range is 9-30 
109/L.