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dakota nelson

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The first column in a flow sheet displays
 
  A) encounter data from multiple visits for easy comparison.
  B) data from the patient's current encounter.
  C) data from the patient's earliest encounter.
  D) headings with clinical concepts or findings in the current encounter note.

Question 2

In the HIM profession what is abstracting?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



Jbrasil

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

Creating a brief summary of a document, or the process of extracting elements of a source document for data entry such as a patient's condition, illness, treatments, and outcome.



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