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Decode Social History For Newborns

Published on Fri Dec 23, 2016

Question: What would be considered an acceptable social history for a newborn? We are having some conflict with our documentation, and physicians are just saying things like "Family lives in Atlanta." Georgia Subscriber Answer: The social history of a patient, regardless of age, is one of the histories of Past, Family, and/or Social History (PFSH), which is then one of the [...]
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