Classification Systems Flashcards
What is DSM-IV-TR?
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, offers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.
Which cooperating party is responsible for maintaining the ICD-9 Disease Classification
The National Center for Health Statistics.
What is SNOMED CT?
SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) contributes to the improvement of patient care by underpinning the development of Electronic Health Records that record clinical information in ways that enable meaning-based retrieval.
What is SNDO?
Standardized Nomenclature of Diseases with Operations.This terminology introduced the notion of multi-axial coding. The two axes were topology (or anatomy) and etiology (or pathophysiology).
What is ICDPC-2?
ICPC-2 classifies patient data and clinical activity in the domains of General/Family Practice and primary care, taking into account the frequency distribution of problems seen in these domains.
What is GEM?
The GEMs are a tool you can use to convert data from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS and vice versa.
What is the UMLS?
The UMLS, or Unified Medical Language System, is a set of files and software that brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems.
The UMLS is sponsored by who?
The National Library of Medicine.
The Central Office on ICD-9-CM is maintained by who?
The American Hospital Association.
What are ABC codes?
Five-digit Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliant alpha codes used by licensed and non-licensed healthcare practitioners on standard healthcare claim forms to describe services, remedies and/or supply items provided and/or used during patient visits.
What are READ codes?
Read codes are the standard clinical terminology system used in General Practice in the United Kingdom.
What is LOINC?
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) is a database and universal standard for identifying medical laboratory observations.
What is the Specialist Lexicon?
The SPECIALIST Lexicon is one of the three Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) components.
Who maintains HCPCS level II codes?
CMS
What is CPT Modifier 22?
Increased Procedural Services.
