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When One Medical Record Number Is Assigned to a Patient

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When one medical record number is assigned to a patient during the first encounter and is used for all future encounters, this is called __________________________________.


Definitions:

Mortality

The state or condition of being subject to death; the death rate within a given population or demographic.

Birth Rate

Birth rate is the number of live births per thousand people in a population over a given period of time.

R-Selected

A term used in ecology to describe organisms that produce many offspring, with a strategy focusing on quantity over quality for survival.

K-Selected

A term describing organisms that produce fewer offspring, with a greater emphasis on parental care and survival of each offspring.

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