The Home Health Medical Terminology at your fingertips helps you decipher the medical shorthand used by referral sources.

This handy reference tool contains the definitions of and proper uses for more than 200 medical terms and 500 abbreviations. It also includes hundreds of drugs listed by main disease treatments with medical prefix and suffixes.

This pocket-size guide builds your team’ knowledge and understanding of medical terms, which means better communication with referrers and less time leafing through dictionaries. You’ll spend a lot less time trying to track words and conditions down at all stages, from hospital intake to assessment &hellip to final coding.

Included are 4 main sections: 

• Definitions of words
• Common abbreviations
• A list of medical prefixes and suffixes
• Common drugs and their uses

The first two sections also include terms used by CMS, the ICD-9-CM diagnosis book, the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse Society, and the OASIS manual. Start saving time and develop medical terminology and abbreviation comprehension immediately with Home Health Medical Terminology Home Health Medical Terminology at your fingertips!

ALERT: ICD-10 becomes the effective code set on October 1, 2013. Correct coding will require a comprehensive understanding of medical terms, and knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Start training your coders now to recognize the terms and apply the knowledge.

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