Patients sue for a variety of reasons. Which of the following is not one of the top recurring reasons patients sue?

A. medication errors
B. delay in diagnosis
C. correction of a mistake
D. wrong diagnosis
E. birth injury


C. correction of a mistake

When a mistake is made, but corrected, patients are not as likely to sue. Medication errors, delays or wrong diagnoses, along with birth injuries, are common reasons for patients to sue.

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A. Generic name B. Trade name C. International nonproprietary name D. Chemical name E. Brand name

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The health information management (HIM) department microfilms records after four years of hard copy retention. The HIM director needs to present a patient's record that has been microfilmed. The records are:

A) admissible in court as secondary evidence B) admissible in court as primary evidence C) not admissible in court because they are on microfilm D) not admissible in court because they are hearsay evidence

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________ is calculated using height and weight and is expressed as m2 (meters squared).

A. Young's rule B. Clark's rule C. Body surface area (BSA) D. Fried's law

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For the following questions, list the main term that would be referenced in the Procedural Alphabetic Index

Endoscopic removal of gallstones of bile duct

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