Medical Office Procedures: Short Answer

1. What is the difference between an admitting diagnosis and a discharge

diagnosis?

2. What is the difference between a hospital transfer and a hospital discharge?

3. What is the difference between an Elective Admission and an Emergency

Admission?

4. Name 4 forms that would be found in a Surgical Chart:

5. What is the Admitting Department in charge of in a hospital?

6. As a Unit Clerk, what would you do if an in-patient wanted to leave the hospital

without the doctor's advice or permission?