Unlike outpatient coding, which uses the patient's primary diagnosis, hospital coding uses the _____ diagnosis, which is the condition that was chiefly responsible for the patient's admission to the hospital.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
principal
The Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) defines the principal diagnosis as "that condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospital for care."
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