Advantages of ICD-10-CM over ICD-9-CM is explained below.
Explanation:
- The granularity of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS is vastly improved over ICD-9-CM and will enable greater specificity in identifying health conditions.
- It also provides better data for measuring and tracking health care utilization and the quality of patient care.
- ICD-9 codes have limited data about the patient's medical conditions and hospital inpatient procedures. ICD-9 codes use outdated and obsolete terms and are not consistent with current medical practices.
- The final rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification to Medical Data Code Set Standards to adopt ICD-10-CM was published on January 16, 2009. ... Physicians created the ICD-10-CM terminology, whereas ICD-9-CM used the coding terminology.
- ICD-10 emphasis on modern technology devices being used for various procedures, while ICD-9 codes are unable to reflect the use of modern day equipment. Hence, the basic structural difference is that ICD-9 is a 3-5 character numeric code while the ICD-10 is a 3-7 character alphanumeric code.
- International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), for medical coding and reporting in the United States.ICD-9 stands for International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision. Coding is a universal or standard system used for the purpose of identifying diseases. These codes have three, four or five digits
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Answer - natural observation
I think this experimental method is a better option because its in a natural environment where the kids dont know whats happening unlike the suveys where you ask them questions which is probably a bad idea because they might feel scared and just change their minds.
The answer is Chemotherapy
