The statement in the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines "that condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for the admission of the patient to the hospital for care" is a definition of a:
A) supplemental diagnosis
B) principal diagnosis
C) first-listed diagnosis
D) precedence diagnosis
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