Expanding - sm
Posted By: brighteyes on 2008-06-27
In Reply to: Should we expand things like MRI and CT in diagnosis? SM - confused
Subject: Expanding - sm
It all depends on your account specifics, but I think some of the trend is to do so under the assessment or diagnosis sections, to make it perfectly clear, as one of my accounts has changed to that recently. I would ask your QA about it and in which specific instances you are supposed to be using it.
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