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{{DX tag | | Medical Problem | FEVER NYD |  |867-00| No | 0 |CC & Med | Currently Collected | | | |}}
{{DX tag | Other Medical (old) | 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]]
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]]