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Use This Guide to Code Pediatric Skin Rashes

Published on Tue Mar 08, 2022

Don’t dig too deep for these common integumentary diagnoses. “There are more than 12 million office visits annually for rashes and other skin concerns in children and adolescents, of which 68 percent are made to primary care physicians,” according to the American Family Physician (www.aafp.org/afp/2015/0801/p211.html). The article goes on to identify eight of the most common skin conditions affecting [...]
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