Doc dictates "The patient has a history of chronic kidney disease (stage 4 to stage 5) ?!?! is that how it is transcribed per the BOS II ... I just moved and cannot locate my book for verification. ...
A 57-year-old woman with chronic kidney disease. In the Plan, dr (soft spoken with heavy accent) says "We will do a (s/l) P-urea or (s/l) Fe-urea.'' ?
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Doctor is giving list of diagnoses and says "s/l dough polycystic kidney disease." Does anyone anyone know if there is a distinction among the types of polycystic kidney disease that might sound like dough/doh? I know there is a genetic type, but not sure about anything else. This doc is notorious for adding nonsensical syllables here and there (why can' he say "um" like everybody else??). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I've seen kidney disease classifications both Arabic and Roman. Which is correct? I've been using Arabic, but I just had an editor change a report to Roman. I'm confused and can't find it in BOS2. Thanks! ...
Nothing in BOS, at least that I could find. Couldn't find anything on Loma Linda University site. Don't recognize the Google hits for arabic. Anyone know? Thanks. ...
The patient was referred for left-sided hydronephrosis and a CT scan was dictated as consistent with a UPJ obstruction. Upon my review of the films, the picture did not appear to be consistent with a classic UPJ obstruction (it was not a box kidney).
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This is a kidney transplant report, and the doc says: "A 6 x 12 double-J stent was placed within the ureter up into the (s/)l house of the kidney."
I looked up this term, but I can't find it with Google. Any suggestions?
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I have used acute-on-chronic for years, but more recently my VR prints out acute on chronic. Did I miss something? i.e. acute-on-chronic kidney disease. ...
S/s Chronic bysacalebrium from a spina bifida.
Not sure if it starts with a B. Sounds like it definitely ends with "brium". I'm having a heck of a time finding anything remotely like it or a list of things caused by spina bifida. ...
The patient has known kidney stones.
The doc says . . . . "He compalined of s/l thick-a-ties pressure and pain running down to his left testicle and left flank . . ." ...
The doc is saying: The patient experienced a rejection, and we are very pleased that we were able to reverse this with the s/l phoresis/IKIG regimen. TIA.... ...
Here are some of my observances of chronic ASR errors, though sometimes it gets it right. Most are not a biggie, but one could get marked down on an audit.
1. BiPaP. Should be BiPAP.
2. Levothyroxine. ASR capitalizes the "L" for some reason. This med is a generic for the brand Levothyroid. Should be levothyroxine.
3. FIO2. Should be FiO2.
4. Hospice. In the English dictionary, this is simply hospice. If a specific organi ...