COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2)
| ICD10 Diagnosis | |
| Dx: | COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2) |
| ICD10 code: | U07.1 |
| Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | none assigned |
| Charlson/ALERT Scale: | none |
| APACHE Como Component: | none |
| APACHE Acute Component: | none |
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| Stop Date: | |
| Data Dependencies(Reports/Indicators/Data Elements): | No results |
| External ICD10 Documentation | |
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Additional Info
- This is intrinsically a code for a viral pathogen officially called "SARS-COV-2". It causes a disease called "COVID-19", that has multiple manifestations, with more likely to be identified over time.
- The main manifestation known as of April 2020 is a viral pneumonia which can evolve into ARDS (noncardiogenic pulmonary edema). To code this viral pneumonia, use Pneumonia, viral with the bug being COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2).
- If as may be the case, there is a viral encephalopathy due to this bug, then you'd code it as Encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, myelitis, encephalomyelitis, viral with the bug being the same.
- As we do with all infections, we do the best possible to identify the bug. Sometimes we're left without a clear, laboratory identification of the bug and then we use one or another of the "wastebasket codes"
- For example if the team believes this is likely a virus but doesn't know which one then use Virus, NOS
- For example if the team doesn't know what kind of bug it is, but believes it is infectious then use Infectious organism, unknown
Presumed infections
If the team believes that this is COVID-19 (even without clear cut lab confirmation), then use COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2) as the organism - of course anybody seeking to do definitive analysis of all COVID-19 cases will need to obtain and use the data on confirmed cases from Cadham.
Confirmed infections
Done by Provincial Microbiology Lab
Delayed lab results
- Regarding people who either die or are discharged from hospital with their COVID-19 lab test still pending, follow the usual rules i.e: Lab_and_culture_reports#How_long_to_wait_for_a_result or Attribution of infections
- Note that this test is done by Cadham Lab and not by the usual DSM lab.
Other info
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
Only use this for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) - not other Coronavirus
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