Coding fractures in ICD10: Difference between revisions
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== Coding instructions == | == Coding instructions == | ||
===Main Categories=== | |||
There are two main categories of fractures: | |||
*Due to trauma/injury -- by definition these have a so-called '''external''' cause or mechanism of injury". This means that the fracture was due to something enternal to the patient, such as getting hit by a baseball bat, or hitting their head on the pavement after falling off a ladder. | |||
*Nontraumatic fractures -- for these the main cause is something ''internal'' to the patient, such as a metastatic tumor to bone that weakens it. | |||
**While in these cases the fracture might well happen after some relatively minor stress to that bone (e.g. trying to open a jar of pickles), these should be included in the nontraumatic fracture categtory unless that stress would have led to a fracture in the absence of whatever weakened the bone. | |||
===Fractures due to trauma or injury=== | ===Fractures due to trauma or injury=== | ||