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Revision as of 10:39, 2019 October 30

ICD10 Diagnosis
Dx: Encephalopathy, septic or metabolic
ICD10 code: G93.80
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: Other Metabolic Encephalopathy
Charlson/ALERT Scale: none
APACHE Como Component: none
APACHE Acute Component: none
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These instructions imply that anytime we have someone come in with altered mentation due to hepatic encephalopathy, that we need to code them as one of the liver failures. This leads to a lot of patients being labelled as liver failure. I'm not sure if I am using this code correctly

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Altered mental status coding guideline

Coding altered mental status in ICD10 can be complex, see ICD10 Guideline for coding altered mental status for more info.

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