There are six specific actions that you should take as part of the coding process. What is action 1?
A. Code the procedure or procedures
B. Abstract the documentation
C. Query
D. Code the diagnosis or diagnoses
Answer: B
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A) "You are probably having stomach cramps, too, aren't you?" B) "Did you have anything to eat before the pain started?" C) "Have you taken anything to relieve the pain?" D) "Does your chest hurt when you cough?"
During a single-breath capnogram, the sharp downstroke and return to baseline that normally oc-curs after the end-tidal point indicates what?
a. Exhalation of mainly dead space gas b. Inspiration of fresh respiratory gas c. Exhalation of mixed alveolar and dead space gas d. Exhalation of mainly alveolar gas
Which of the following is true regarding advances in automated coagulation instrumentation?
a. Less staff training is required to operate and maintain the equipment than earlier semiautomatic instruments. b. Single-sample testing is possible because of increased precision. c. Newer instruments are less expensive. d. Accuracy is so improved that controls do not need to be run.
A qualitative sensitivity test that uses different antibiotics on a paper disk placed on the culture medium is called:
A. disk diffusion method. B. broth dilution method. C. MIC method. D. MBC method.