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Wiki Annual Exam Ages

Thread starter akoschoff
Start date Dec 3, 2015

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akoschoff

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Dec 3, 2015

In our code books for annual exams, pediatric is ages 0-17 and adult is ages 15-124. So, ages 15-17 fall in to both codes. How do we know whether to code 15-17 year olds with the pediatric or adult code?

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