A diabetic coma occurs with very severe ________, in which a patient has too much sugar in the blood.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
hyperglycemia
Diabetic coma, which is a severe form of hyperglycemia, occurs when insulin levels are insufficient to move blood sugar into body cells.
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a. 13 b. 25 c. 32 d. 43
Clinical trials are permitted by the HIPAA privacy rule
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The manner in which clinical data is presented using classification systems, clinical vocabularies, other forms of data, and standards is called
A. data mapping B. clinical data representation C. encoding D. case mix
The following questions will require the use of an ICD-9-CM code book to complete the sentence. Temporary ileostomy is coded to procedure code __________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word