ICD-10-CM Official Coding and Reporting Guidelines from the CDC
To access the ICD-10 coding and reporting guidelines click this link.
To access the ICD-10 coding and reporting guidelines click this link.
A nurse wakes in the night in profound anxiety, she can’t breathe, her first panic attack. Her husband is quarantined with COVID19; while she works the frontlines at a large hospital, witnessing what looks like the apocalypse. She begins a…
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A great resource for tracking the evolution of new clinical trials related to COVID-19. Drill down by intervention type, trial status, and more.
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Join Dr Kara Fitzgerald and Dr Brent Dorval PhD, KBMO Diagnostic’s Chief Scientific Officer, to learn about KBMO’s new COVID-19 Antibody Test. Dr. Dorval previously served as an advisor on the WHO Vaccines and Diagnostics Committee.
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