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Don't Let the Alphabet Soup of Operative Reports Thwart Your Coding

Published on Fri Jun 13, 2014

Review this primer to hone your acronym decoding skills.  Because of the extended disease and procedure names, physicians generated a system of communication using acronyms and abbreviations to facilitate more efficient communication among other medical professionals. Unfortunately, in addition to being more efficient, the onslaught of acronyms has increased the possibility of error because of misunderstandings of the acronym or [...]
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