COPD, without exacerbation
ICD10 Diagnosis | |
Dx: | COPD, without exacerbation |
ICD10 code: | J44.8 |
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | COPD |
Charlson/ALERT Scale: | Chronic pulmonary disease |
APACHE Como Component: | Respiratory |
APACHE Acute Component: | 2019-0: COPD |
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Stop Date: | |
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Additional Info
- COPD refers to a group of lung disorders which have similar clinical presentation and course but different histopathological appearances (i.e. how they look under the microscope). Primarily COPD is a combination of "pulmonary emphysema" and "chronic bronchitis", with many or most patients having histopathological characteristics of both.
- A potentially BIG source confusion is that the "Chronic bronchitis" that is a form of COPD is DIFFERENT from Bronchitis, chronic, infectious or noninfectious.
- Part of the reason this is confusing is that sometimes clinicians use "Chronic bronchitis" and "COPD" interchangeably if the patient is the so-called "blue bloater" phenotype of COPD.
- So, if your patient just has the chronic bronchitis form of COPD (with or without exacerbation) use COPD, without exacerbation or COPD, acute exacerbation.
- On the other hand, use Bronchitis, chronic, infectious or noninfectious if they have it in the ABSENCE of COPD.
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Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- COPD, acute exacerbation
- Pulmonary emphysema or bullous disease without COPD J43.9
- Emphysema, mediastinal or interstitial
- Bronchitis, acute or chronic not specified, infectious or noninfectious J40
- Bronchitis, chronic, infectious or noninfectious J42
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