_________ documentation that identifies the level of risk posed to the patient by any of the following: pathological development that is not an inherent part of the presenting problem but that occurs in a patient during the management of a patient's presenting problem, a disease, illness, or ill health that is separate from the presenting problem but that occurs at the same time as the presenting

problem, or death

Fill in the blank with correct word.


risk of complications, comorbidity, or mortality

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