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Query: Altered mental status

Cynthia Prayzner at Southcoast Health System in New Bedford, Mass., offers this sample altered mental status query form which asks physicians to identify the chronicity of the diagnosis providing additional specificity not on the query form but in the medical record's progress note. 

 

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