Spinal Epidural Abcess Drainage
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| Category/Organ System: |
Category: Infection (old) |
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Type: |
[[:Category: Surgical Procedure (old)]][[Category: Surgical Procedure (old)]] |
| Main Diagnosis: | Spinal Epidural Abcess Drainage |
| Sub Diagnosis: | SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS DRAINAGE |
| Diagnosis Code: | 8000 - Spinal Epidural Abcess Drainage |
| Comorbid Diagnosis: | No |
| Charlson Comorbid coding (pre ICD10): | 0 |
| Program: | CC & Med |
| Status: | Currently Collected
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Question
- Why is this abscess drainage in the infection section? Should it not be in the procedures? We have an infection code for Intracranial/subdural or Epidural Abscess already.
None of our other abscess drainage procedures are in the infection section. This is inconsistent. --LKolesar 13:51, 2016 February 19 (CST)