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Find Out Information on Side Dominance for I69-

Published on Fri Sep 05, 2025

Question: A provider documents a patient having hemiplegia after a stroke but doesn’t specify which side the hemiplegia affects. Does the side matter? Washington Subscriber Answer: It’s important to have as much information as possible, both for the patient’s benefit, in portraying an accurate depiction of their condition in the medical narrative, and for the comprehensiveness of the documentation. When [...]
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