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Coding Exercise

Let’s practice coding.

Question 1:
  • Read the scenarios below.
  • Look at the list of codes below and decide which code sums up what is being talked about in each line of the text (you may use a code more than once).
  • Once you have selected codes for ALL the lines of text, click on the submit button below the passage of text.

List of codes:

  1. Testing Issues
  2. Motherhood
  3. Medication Adherence
  4. Diagnosis

Scenario 1

Now that don’t necessarily mean he’s positive. My baby’s daddy’s not positive, he’s negative.

1. Testing Issues

Scenario 2

And he took the test, he started taking the test, but I kept my son going to the same [unclear] from having the virus in his body...

Your answer:

Our answer: 2. Motherhood

Scenario 3

Yeah, I have to deal with it and take the medicine and everything...

Your answer:

Our answer: 3. Medication Adherence

Scenario 4

but my son is negative...It took like a year and then I made sure I got that piece of paper which states that he is negative...

Your answer:

Our answer: 4. Diagnosis

You may have chosen to use different codes from the ones we used, this does not mean you are wrong as you may have a very good reason for selecting that code. Often the same text can be coded in two or more different ways.