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-{{DX tag | | Other Medical Problems | FEVER NYD |  |867-00| No | 0 |'''Critical Care and Medicine''' | Currently Collected | | | |}}
+{{DX tag | Other Medical | Medical Problem | FEVER NYD |  |867-00| No | 0 |CC & Med | Currently Collected | | | |}}
+If a patient has a fever and it is unclear what the source is, then use this code.  If a patient has negative cultures, and if the doctors are using septicemia as a diagnosis, then use fever NYD, not septicemia.  See [[Septicemia/Bacteremia/Fungemia]]
-FEVER NYD is to be used for''' non infectious problems'''. If infection is the likely cause of the fever the patient should be coded [[Septicemia]].  Gail Hall.
-[[Category: Diagnosis Coding]]