This clear, easy-to-use text is your key to ICD-9-CM coding success, offering everything you need to understand and apply the official codes of the ICD-9-CM. You’ll find detailed background information on the evolution and importance of medical coding, as well as reliable, straightforward guidelines for each of the coding classifications you’ll use in practice. Information on body systems and common drugs and conditions helps you understand treatment concepts as you translate them into codes. Realistic examples demonstrate the coding process, while practical exercises within each chapter test your comprehension and reinforce coding principles.

这本清晰、易于使用的教材是您成功应用ICD-9-CM编码的关键，书中提供了您所需的所有理解和应用ICD-9-CM官方编码的知识。从本书中，您将发现关于医学编码重要性和演化背景的详细信息。并且，本书也是您在实践中应用每一编码级别的直观可靠的指南。在您将关于身体系统、常见药物以及病情的信息转化为编码的过程中，将有助于您理解治疗概念。真实的案例演示了编码过程。同时，每章中的练习检查了您对所学内容的理解程度并强化了您对编码原则的理解。

* A systematic approach outlines basic concepts and walks you through the complete coding process using all three volumes of the ICD-9-CM. * A full-color design makes anatomy and physiology stand out and provides visual reinforcement of key content. * ICD-9-CM guidelines open each coding chapter, with examples that clearly demonstrate their real-world applications. * Learning objectives help you study more effectively. * Abbreviations are clearly defined at the beginning of each chapter for quick reference. * Problem-solving exercises throughout each chapter provide valuable practice using key coding principles as you learn them. * Illustrations and overviews of anatomy, physiology, and related disease conditions in each coding chapter help you better visualize and understand what the codes represent. * A glossary at the end of each chapter helps you quickly find the definitions for key terms. * Direct references to the AHA’s Co

* Expanded coverage of the format and coding conventions of each section of the ICD-9-CM helps you quickly locate the information you need for proper code assignment. * The complications chapter is reorganized and expanded to address conditions that can affect multiple body systems and require codes from more than one area of ICD-9-CM. * Updated coverage and additional examples of the new MS-DRG system are incorporated throughout the text. * Information on ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS features new 2007 information to help prepare you for the next revision of the ICD code set.