Across
- 4. The quality or state of being specific.
- 7. abnormal condition resulting from a previous disease.
- 8. Software that will apply diagnostic or procedure codes to medical conditions or procedures.
- 11. Developing slowly and lasting for a long time, generally 3 or more months.
- 14. To specify that an agent or procedure should not be used.
- 16. Pertaining to the study of body tissues.
- 17. The relative frequency of deaths in a specific population.
- 18. Collecting important information from the health record.
- 19. A document used to capture the services/procedures and diagnoses for a patient visit. The fees for the services/procedures are usually included on the encounter form.
Down
- 1. To make repayment for an expense or a loss incurred.
- 2. A mental disorder in which the individual experiences a progressive loss of memory, personality alterations, confusion, loss of touch with reality, and stupor (seeming unawareness of, and disconnection with, one's surroundings).
- 3. Advanced hypothyroidism in adulthood.
- 5. Accepted healthcare services that are appropriate for the evaluation and treatment of a disease, condition, illness or injury and are consistent with the applicable standard of care.
- 6. Progressive loss of transparency of the lens of the eye.
- 9. The branch of medicine dealing with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population. It also involves the prevalence of disease in large populations, in addition to detection of the source and cause of epidemics of infectious disease.
- 10. The study of the causes or origin of diseases.
- 12. Determining the cause of a condition, illness, disease, injury, or congenital defect.
- 13. Information about a patient's diagnosis or diagnoses that has been taken from the medical documentation.
- 15. A term used in the diagnosis of a condition that can be imminently threatening. For example, a patient showing signs of prediabetes may in the near future develop diabetes; therefore, in this case, diabetes is an impending condition.