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Check Your Answers to Our Urine Culture Coding Quiz

Published on Tue Jul 16, 2024

And add these ICD-10-CM codes to your urine testing knowledge base Answer 1: Presumptive identification means that the lab identifies an organism based on colony characteristics such as growth on specific medium, morphology (form), gram stain, and the results of up to three other tests such as catalase, oxidase, indole, or urease. When the lab receives a urine specimen for [...]
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