ICD-10-AM Tabular List punctuation etc Flashcards
What is the symbol for Aetiology (the underlying disease or cause)
Dagger e.g. fracture due to bone cancer - the cause is the cancer
What is the symbol for manifestation (the resulting condition)
Asterisk e.g. fracture due to bone cancer - the resulting condition is the fracture
Punctuation - what are used to enclose abbrev, alternative wordings e.g information to help coders?
square brackets
Punctuation - what are used in the normal way to enclosed additional information or examples of codes?
Parentheses
Punctuation - After a diagnostic term there may be other terms in parentheses. These are called …….. Modifiers?
Non Essential Modifiers - the presence or absence of these parenthetical terms has no effect on the selection of the code listed in the heading or as an inclusion term.
Punctuation - A term in an inclusion or exclusion list followed by a colon means that the term is incomplete and must an …… modifier to follow it before it can be given a code.
Essential modifier. e.g. Senile, cataract and then has 3 bullet points terms - means you must also include one of them or the code is incomplete.
Punctuation - what links series of terms, each of which is modified by the term to the right of the …..?
Brace - like the colon, the terms before the brace are incomplete without the term after the brace.
What does NEC (not elsewhere classified) mean you should do? This is more revision rather than a question
it is a warning that there may be another, better code in the classification. The code you are looking at is not specific & if you have any more precise info about the condition u should look for a more specific code. it doesn’t mean you can’t use the code, just that the code should be used only if more info is not available.
Where you see the abbreviation NEC the question you should ask yourself is?
should this condition be classified somewhere else?
The abbrev NOS stands for not otherwise specified and means “unspecified”. revision rather than a question
codes that are followed by NOS can be used when u do not have enough info to assign a more specific code.
If you see “and” in a title or description of the Tabular of Diseases (only) what does it mean?
and/or. e.g. Background retinopathy and retinal vascular changes means that under code H35.0 you can code diagnoses of background retinopathy OR retinal …. OR a combination of both.
What does epidemiology mean?
the analysis of diseased & health problems in populations of people.
