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Glide Through Reporting Feeding Difficulties in Infants with These 4 Tips

Published on Fri Feb 10, 2017

Hint: Reserve use of newborn codes for infants not over 28 days old. When your FP diagnoses a newborn infant with feeding difficulties, you will have to understand the exact type of feeding difficulty that the child is experiencing, as this will influence your diagnosis code choice. You should also know that you will need to use different code sets [...]
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