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Q about staging of chronic kidney disease - me


Posted: Jan 15, 2010

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.

Staging - lsh

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chronic kidney disease, Stage IV-V.

Capital letter and Roman numeral - NephMT

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Stage I, II, III, IV, and V.


The word "Stage" is capitalized.



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