Antibiotic Resistant Organism (old)

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• Explanation: Changed with move to ICD10/CCI.
• Successor: Antibiotic Resistant Organism

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Coding AROs in the old dx schema

We collect data about ARO – Antibiotic Resistant Organisms as part of our general collection of information about Pathogens (old).

• Enterococcus -vancomycin-resistant (VRE)
• ESBL - ESBL or MRO
• MRSA

We also collect MRSA Colonization (without Infection) as a specific diagnosis.

We used to code VRE, ESBL and MRO Colonization