Infectious organism, unknown
ICD10 Diagnosis | |
Dx: | Infectious organism, unknown |
ICD10 code: | U22.9 |
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Negative Culture, No Culture Sent or Resulted, Unknown Pathogen |
Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
APACHE Como Component: | none |
APACHE Acute Component: | none |
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Additional Info
- This is the "bug code" to use when there is a presumed infection and the organism is unknown.
- This generally occurs for 2 possible reasons: No cultures were sent OR Cultures were sent but they were negative
- When the bug was isolated and therefore is known, but it is not in our list of specific bugs, then use one or another of these:
- This is a U-code -- indicating that there is no code in ICD10 to represent this, and so we made one up.
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
- Bacteria, NOS
- Virus, NOS
- Fungus or yeast, NOS
- Infectious disease NOS OR for buglist organism NOS
- Pathogens
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