Introduction to medical coding D521 WGU
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Diagnosis - Answer✔identification of an illness by a licensed provider
Morbidity - Answer✔a diseased condition or state
mortality - Answer✔The possibility of death
Medical coding (history) - Answer✔Started as an attempt to avoid the Black Death
William Farr - Answer✔developed centralized registration system for disease classification
ICD - Answer✔Manual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and
causes of death
ICD purpose/who sponsorship - Answer✔To promote international comparability in the
collection, classification, processing and presentation of morbidity and mortality statistics
When was ICD 1 published? - Answer✔1900
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