Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
058.89 Other human herpesvirus infection; 059 Other poxvirus infections 059.0 Other orthopoxvirus infections 059.00 Orthopoxvirus infection, unspecified; 059.01 Monkeypox; 059.09 Other orthopoxvirus infections; 059.1 Other parapoxvirus infections 059.10 Parapoxvirus infection, unspecified; 059.11 Bovine stomatitis; 059.12 Sealpox; 059.19 Other ...
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
In 1968, the United States Public Health Service published the International Classification of Diseases, Adapted, 8th Revision for use in the United States (ICDA-8). Beginning in 1968, ICDA-8 served as the basis for coding diagnostic data for both official morbidity and mortality statistics in the United States. [10] [11]
ICD has a hierarchical structure, and coding in this context, is the term applied when representations are assigned to the words they represent. [30] Coding diagnoses and procedures is the assignment of codes from a code set that follows the rules of the underlying classification or other coding guidelines.
For example, pneumonia can be categorized as a lung infection, but also as a bacterial or viral infection (i.e. by site or by etiology). Thus, the node Pneumonia (entity id: 142052508 ) has two parents: Lung infections (entity id: 915779102 ) and Certain infectious or parasitic diseases (entity id: 1435254666 ).
The ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) is a set of diagnosis codes used in the United States of America. [1] It was developed by a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, [2] as an adaption of the ICD-10 with authorization from the World Health Organization.
Diagnostic coding is the translation of written descriptions of diseases, illnesses and injuries into codes from a particular classification. In medical classification, diagnosis codes are used as part of the clinical coding process alongside intervention codes. Both diagnosis and intervention codes are assigned by a health professional trained ...
Patients assigned to MDC 25 (HIV Infections) must have a principal diagnosis of an HIV Infection or a principal diagnosis of a significant HIV related condition and a secondary diagnosis of an HIV Infection. MDC 0, unlike the others, can be reached from a number of diagnosis/procedure situations, all related to transplants.