Template:ICD10 Guideline Falls: Difference between revisions

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This page contains an ICD10 Coding Guideline for ICD10 collection. See ICD10 coding guidelines for similar pages.

As from task meeting minutes:
- Falls in hospital should only be coded if they cause an injury, and in that case code the injury, with Mechanism of injury: fall or jump (not necessarily from a height)
- Falls that are a reason for admission, that caused an injury should be coded exactly as above.
- For falls that are a reason for admission that did NOT cause an injury AND the cause was found, code the cause, not the fall(s).
- For falls that are a reason for admission that did NOT cause an injury and the cause was NOT found, code this as a combination of Observation for reason NOS and Mechanism of injury: fall or jump (not necessarily from a height)

likely related codes that may need to be linked to this and explained in this include:

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+*As from task meeting minutes:
+**Falls in hospital should only be coded if they cause an injury, and in that case code the injury, with [[Mechanism of injury: fall or jump (not necessarily from a height)]]
+**Falls that are a reason for admission, that caused an injury should be coded exactly as above.
+**For falls that are a reason for admission that did NOT cause an injury AND the cause was found, code the cause, not the fall(s).
+**For falls that are a reason for admission that did NOT cause an injury and the cause was NOT found, code this as a combination of [[Observation for reason NOS]] and [[Mechanism of injury: fall or jump (not necessarily from a height)]]
 likely related codes that may need to be linked to this and explained in this include: