As a Health Information Professional, You Are Assigned the Responsibility

question 14

Multiple Choice

As a health information professional, you are assigned the responsibility of researching record retention laws for your hospital and developing a retention policy for the patient record. You discover that your state does not have a retention law, and you research other recommended retention guidelines that included the AHIMA recommendation. What was the retention period recommended by AHIMA?

• A) 5 years
• B) 7 years
• C) 10 years
• D) 15 years

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Definitions:

Grasping

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Infants

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Mirror Opposites

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