1 On September 5, 2013, CMS released guidance that discussed the provisions of the final rule regarding the physician order and physician certification of hospital inpatient services. 2  This document includes further clarification of issues addressed in the previous guidance.
Full Answer. Also called a dichotomous key, a taxonomic key gives users a systematic and reproducible way to identify items and organisms. It is used for a variety of purposes, such as identifying unknown organisms to a certain taxonomic level (e.g. family, genus and species) and identifying rocks or minerals.
Keys that are based on successive choices between only two statements are known as dichotomous keys and are the type of key preferred by most biologists. Dichotomous comes from a Greek word that means cut into two parts. Therefore, dichotomous keys always give two choices in each step. Hawaiian Translation: 'Ämama Koho