Megan is the nurse chair of the performance improvement committee for a small community hospital. She has been asked to work with the hospital's community health outreach program team with a focus on cardiovascular disease. Megan begins by reviewing hospital discharge data as part of the initial review of patients with cardiovascular disease. Because she wants to use a taxonomy that categorizes diagnoses into mutually exclusive groups, which taxonomy should she use?

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Major diagnostic categories (MDCs) are used to categorize diagnoses into mutually exclusive groups, which is what Megan needs for her review.

Megan Is the Nurse Chair of the Performance Improvement Committee