In your state, it is legal for minors to seek medical treatm…

In your state, it is legal for minors to seek medical treatment for a sexually transmitted disease without parental consent. When this occurs, who would be expected to authorize the release of the medical information documented in this episode of care to the patient’s insurers?

Two coders have found the same abbreviation (CO) in two reco…

Two coders have found the same abbreviation (CO) in two records.  One abbreviation means carbon monoxide in a patient with respiratory complaints.  The other means cardiac output in a heart patient’s record.  This indicates a problem with which data quality characteristic in these records?  

You are providing an educational session to new hires at you…

You are providing an educational session to new hires at your hospital. You tell the new employees that hospital records may be used as evidence in court even though hearsay laws bar the use of most evidence that does not represent personal knowledge of the witness. That is because the hospital record