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Follow This Advice, Calculate Risk Level With Confidence

Question: I’m trying to determine the level of risk in the following encounter: a patient received an acute sprain of the back and another of the neck in a car accident. Our provider ordered ice and massage therapy and wrote scripts for naproxen and methocarbamol. Would this be low level, based on the low level of the presenting problems and [...]
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