<div class="yui-wk-div">The History of Procedures Section contains a description of the  patient past procedures that are pertinent to the scope of this document.<br clear="none"/>
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<div class="yui-wk-div">Procedures may refer for example to:</div>
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<li>Invasive Diagnostic procedure:e.g. Cardiac catheterization; (the results of these procedure are documented in the results section)<br clear="none"/>
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<li>Therapeutic procedure: e.g. dialysis; <br clear="none"/>
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<li>Surgical procedure: e.g. appendectomy<br clear="none"/>
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<div class="yui-wk-div">All those are represented in this template as procedures.<br clear="none"/>
<br clear="none"/>The optional author and informant elements are used when necessary to convey the provenance and authoring of the section content in case it is different from what is announced in the CDA header.<br clear="none"/>
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