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Terminology Unit 3

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Problem List   Acute conditions for which the patient was recently seen as well as chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and so on , which are monitored every visit  
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Triage   The screening of patients for allocation of treatment based on the urgency of their need for care  
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Flow Sheets   A feature of software that presents data from multiple encounter in column format resembling a spreadsheet  
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FVC   Forced Vital Capacity  
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H   History and Physical  
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JCAHO   Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations  
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LIS   Laboratory Information System  
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MVV   Maximal Voluntary Ventilation  
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VC   Vital Capacity  
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Wi-Fi   Wireless Fidelity  
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Advance Beneficiary Notice/ ABN   Information presented to patient in advance that the test or procedure will not be covered by Medicare or insurance  
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Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality/AHRQ   a Public Health Service agency in the Department of Health and Human Services to support research designed to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans  
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BMI   Body Mass Index  
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DtaP   Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis (whooping cough); a combination vaccine  
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Drug utilization review/DUR   the process of comparing a prescription drug to a patients history and recent medications for contraindication, overdosing, underdosing, allergic reaction, drug-to-drug interactions, and drug/food interactions  
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HepB   Hepatitis B (vaccine)  
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Hib   Haemophilus Influenza Type B (vaccine)  
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HIV   Human Immunodeficiency Virus (disease)  
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IPV   Inactivated Polio Virus (Salk vaccine)  
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MMR   An acronym for a combination of vaccines to immunize against Measles, Mumps, Rubella (German measles)  
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OB   Obstetrics is the field of specialty concerned with pregnancy, childbirth, and the period following  
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Pending oreder   lab test that has been ordered, but no results have been received  
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vital signs   functional measurements recorded at nearly every visit, temperature, respiration rate , pulse rate & blood pressure; most clinic measure height & weight  
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varicella   chickenpox(vaccine)  
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Place of Service Codes   used on professional claims to specify the entity where where service(s) were rendered  
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CMS-1500   claim form  
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rejected claim   has not been or cannot be processed for various reasons  
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Clean claim   submitted within the program or policy time limit and contains all necessary information  
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Invalid claim   medicare claim that contains complete, necessary information but its illogical or incorrect  
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NPI   national provider identifier  
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OCR   optical character recognition  
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cover entity   organization under HIPAA laws  
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clearing house   independent organization that receives insurance claims, performs software edits and redistributes  
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Alzheimer's Disease   severe form of senile dementia  
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Bell's Palsy   loss os sensation or impairment of causes motor function  
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Reyes Syndrome   causes edemia of the brain  
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Tay-Sachs Disease   degeneration of brain tissue  
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diskectomy   surigal incision of an interverbal disk  
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epiduroscopy   surgery introduction medication via endoscope into epidural space  
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Transcutaneous Electrical nerve Stimulations   TENS  
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Oligo   little, scanty  
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micro   small  
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esthesi/o   feeling, sensation  
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CNS   central nervous system  
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Neurons   specialized conductors of impulse that able the body to interact with its enviroment  
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cerebrum   control center  
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cerebellum   coordinates muscle activity and maintain posture and balance 2 large parts of the brain  
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PVC   pneumococal conjugate (vaccine)  
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Td   Tetanus and Diphtheria toxoids vaccine  
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WNL   With Normal Limits in medical charts  
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