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FYI: Grade, Stage, Type, Class - MT

Posted: Mar 30, 2010

Grade gets arabic. Stage, type, and class get Roman numerals. (Exception is type 2 diabetes.) None of them have initial caps (grade 2, stage II, type II, class II).

what about - anon

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chronic kidney disease? QA has corrected me to chronic kidney disease stage 2 many times.

Roman numerals with stage are used with cancer, - sm

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most of the other times use Arabic numerals.

ok thx - nm

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nm

Hmm - MT

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I'm not aware of the kidney stage exception. Things tend to be trending toward no Roman numerals. Seems they're not teaching it in the schools anymore (along with other things, but that's another story), so arabic is becoming more common. I doubt you'd get graded down on a audit on this. I just go by what my office tells me and in general, BOS, when office has no preference.

Then your QA is incorrect - nm

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For chronic kidney disease... - rpCMT

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For chronic kidney disease, the stage should be in arabic numbers.

CKD is Roman numerals - ...

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stage I, stage II, stage III, etc.

That is incorrect, CKD is arabic - rpCMT

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CKD stages are supposed to be represented with arabic numbers. The person who posted earlier that QA told them to use arabic numbers is correct. I have even heard nephrologists request in their dictations to make sure the stages are in arabic numbers, as they see this done incorrectly quite often. I think if you do some more research you will find that arabic numbers are correct in this instance.

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