CRF - Chronic Renal Failure: Difference between revisions

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Category/Organ System:	Category: Renal (old)
Type:	[[:Category: Medical Problem (old)]][[Category: Medical Problem (old)]]
Main Diagnosis:	CRF - Chronic Renal Failure
Sub Diagnosis:	None
Diagnosis Code:	[[DxCode:: Not a main DX code ]]
Comorbid Diagnosis:	35100 - CRF - Chronic Renal Failure
Charlson Comorbid coding (pre ICD10):	2
Program:	CC & Med
Status:	Currently Collected

A patient who has been receiving outpatient dialysis treatments recently prior to hospitalization is considered to be in CRF.
A patient who is not currently in a dialysis treatment program should not be considered to be in CRF.
A patient with an intact kidney transplant who is not being dialyzed should not be coded as CRF

There are a number of coding rules related to renal diagnoses, centralized info about them is in Renal Coding Considerations.

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-* A patient who has been receiving outpatient dialysis treatments '''immediately''' prior to hospitalization is considered to be in CRF.
+* A patient who has been receiving outpatient dialysis treatments '''recently''' prior to hospitalization is considered to be in CRF.
 * A patient who is '''not currently''' in a dialysis treatment program should '''not''' be considered to be in CRF.
 * A patient with an intact kidney transplant who is not being dialyzed should '''not''' be coded as CRF