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Q&A: Coding for acute respiratory failure and overdose
July 12th, 2016
Q: When a patient presents with acute respiratory failure, as well as an overdose, is it ever appropriate to assign the acute respiratory failure as principal diagnosis, since it is an acute condition that would have occasioned the admission to the hospital?
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