A local newspaper reporter has contacted your office requesting the total number of patients in the practice who have a diagnosis of lyme disease, broken into three age ranges-newborn to 18 years old, 19 to 50 years old, and 51 and older-and grouped by zip code. to answer this inquiry, the office manager will run which type of report?

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Zara Coffey

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22 March, 14:55

A local newspaper reporter has contacted your office requesting the total number of patients in the practice who have a diagnosis of lyme disease, broken into three age ranges-newborn to 18 years old, 19 to 50 years old, and 51 and older-and grouped by zip code. to answer this inquiry, the office manager will run which type of report?

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Kylie Schmidt · Answer 1

The answer is run a custom, a custom report would allow the office manager to aggregate diagnoses of lyme disease by age range and zip code without including any identifying information. In addition, syndromatic surveillance data that is obligatory to be reported to public health agencies will be electronically conveyed over use of the electronic health record or may be printed and succumbed to a public health agency.