Template:ICD10 Guideline Falls

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This page contains an ICD10 Coding Guideline for ICD10 collection. See ICD10 coding guidelines for similar pages.

start of a page as discussed in task meeting; if it ends up being short enough I can change it into a template and actually include it in the relevant pages if we want.

  • AG REPLY -- Tina, I think the stuff below is it. But note, as I indicated in an email I just sent you (8/28/2018) I think we should change ALL the mechanism codes from "Mechanism of injury" to "Mechanism of accident or injury".
    • That change would make these code names very long; how important is this change?
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Rules for Coding Falls in ICD10

With the exception from Observation after accident/injury if it is used to code the observational care itself, not the suspected injury. So, in regard to a fall in hospital without an injury, use this code only if there was actual additional medical observation that resulted from the fall, e.g. an extra day in hospital.

Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition