What is the term for the legal right all patients have regarding choices about the health care they will receive?

What will be an ideal response?

Self-determination. After receiving the information regarding the purpose of, benefits of, risks of, and risks of refusing, as well as who will be performing the procedure, a patient has the right to decide whether or not to go ahead with a proposed procedure or treatment.

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Name the four major attributes that were part of the goals for the ICD-10-PCS procedural coding system

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following patients in respiratory distress?

a. infant breathing 70 times/minute b. child breathing 30 times/minute c. infant breathing 50 times/minute d. child breathing 40 times/minute

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