Chapter 16

Question 1

What are the four categories of external cause codes?

Answer 1

1. cause of injury
2. place of occurrence
3. activity during the occurrence
4. patient’s status

Question 2

A patient is diagnosed with an adverse effect or reaction, when all of the following occur and the patient has a negative outcome anyways-

If any of those things are not done or not done correctly what do you code it as?

Answer 2

• a health care professional correctly prescribes a drug for a patient
• the correct patient receives the correct drug
• the correct dosage at the correct frequency is given to the patient (or taken by the patient)
• the correct route of administration is used

code it as a poisoning

Question 3

When it is a poisonings what needs to be included in the code

Answer 3

• an accident (unintentional)
• a suicide attempt (intentional self-harm)
• an assault
• underdoing

Question 4

When reporting burns what three (at least) codes do you need for the 5 details

Answer 4

• first - listed code(s) S/S= site and severity
• next-listed code E= extent

Last-listed code (s) E= external cause code (s)