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**Con, could you get a coding consult from Dr. Embil? | **Con, could you get a coding consult from Dr. Embil? | ||
*** Would you not just code this as [[No Culture Sent or Resulted]] or [[Unknown Pathogen]]? Ttenbergen 10:03, 2014 September 18 (CDT) Ttenbergen 14:44, 2016 February 8 (CST) | *** Would you not just code this as [[No Culture Sent or Resulted]] or [[Unknown Pathogen]]? Ttenbergen 10:03, 2014 September 18 (CDT) Ttenbergen 14:44, 2016 February 8 (CST) | ||
****The current practice at SBGH and GGH is that as long as there is evidence of an ongoing infection, as Shirley described above, then we would choose the appropriate code and if no culture is sent then we choose the subcode "no culture sent" [[User:Lkaita|Lisa Kaita]] 09:14, 2017 May 18 (CDT) | |||
[[Category: UPL]] | [[Category: UPL]] | ||
[[Category: Infection|*]] | [[Category: Infection|*]] | ||
[[Category: Diagnosis Coding]] | [[Category: Diagnosis Coding]] | ||