Isolation, infectious: Difference between revisions

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=== Definition ===

*This is a procedure code for a patient who is on infection isolation precautions.

**To qualify for this, the patient must himself/herself have a condition for which isolation is indicated. So, a group for which this code should NOT be used are patients who are put on isolation precautions ~~PROPHYLACTICALLY~~, i.e. for infection present in somebody else on the ward. An example is when a group of ward patients get C. diff and in response everyone on that ward is put on isolation precautions. The patients on such prophylactic precautions would NOT get this code. However, if such a person then does get (in this example) C. diff, he/she would get this code as of the day he/she got the infection for which the isolation is being done.

**To qualify for this, the patient must himself/herself have a condition for which isolation is indicated. So, a group for which this code should NOT be used are patients who are put on isolation precautions '''prophylactically''', i.e. for infection present in somebody else on the ward. An example is when a group of ward patients get C. diff and in response everyone on that ward is put on isolation precautions. The patients on such prophylactic precautions would NOT get this code. However, if such a person then does get (in this example) C. diff, he/she would get this code as of the day he/she got the infection for which the isolation is being done.

*It '''includes''' any/all of the following kinds of isolation protocols:

**gloves only

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 === Definition ===
 *This is a procedure code for a patient who is on infection isolation precautions.
-**To qualify for this, the patient must himself/herself have a condition for which isolation is indicated.  So, a group for which this code should NOT be used are patients who are put on isolation precautions PROPHYLACTICALLY, i.e. for infection present in somebody else on the ward.  An example is when a group of ward patients get C. diff and in response everyone on that ward is put on isolation precautions.  The patients on such prophylactic precautions would NOT get this code.  However, if such a person then does get (in this example) C. diff, he/she would get this code as of the day he/she got the infection for which the isolation is being done.
+**To qualify for this, the patient must himself/herself have a condition for which isolation is indicated.  So, a group for which this code should NOT be used are patients who are put on isolation precautions '''prophylactically''', i.e. for infection present in somebody else on the ward.  An example is when a group of ward patients get C. diff and in response everyone on that ward is put on isolation precautions.  The patients on such prophylactic precautions would NOT get this code.  However, if such a person then does get (in this example) C. diff, he/she would get this code as of the day he/she got the infection for which the isolation is being done.
 *It '''includes''' any/all of the following kinds of isolation protocols:
 **gloves only