Isolation, infectious

CCI Picklist
Procedure:	Isolation, infectious
CCI Picklist code:	7.SC.70.SA
CCI Collection Mode:	CCI collect first
Start Date:	2018-04-25
Stop Date:

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Additional Info

Code as Acquired Procedure

This almost always needs to be coded as an Acquired Procedure. It's counter-intuitive, but review the documentation at Acquired Procedure/Admit Procedure and it should be clear why.

Definition

• This is a procedure code for a patient who is on infection isolation precautions.
  • To qualify for this, the patient must himself/herself have a condition for which isolation is indicated. So, a group for which this code should NOT be used are patients who are put on isolation precautions prophylactically, i.e. for infection present in somebody else on the ward. An example is when a group of ward patients get C. diff and in response everyone on that ward is put on isolation precautions. The patients on such prophylactic precautions would NOT get this code. However, if such a person then does get (in this example) C. diff, he/she would get this code as of the day he/she got the infection for which the isolation is being done.
• It includes any/all of the following kinds of isolation protocols:
  • gloves only
  • gloves and gown
  • mask
  • negative pressure room use
  • reverse isolation
  • cohorting the patient with other patients with the same pathogen

In the context of Colonized with organism (not infected)

• This code could be either an Admit or Acquired procedure.
  • If it qualifies for the rules of Admit Procedure then use that. If not, use Acquired Procedure.

Do not use this code for isolation for Use of Cytotoxic Agents

• This is NOT included because such isolation (e.g. keeping pregnant nurses from caring for patients getting certain teratogenic medications) is not isolating the patient.

Using this code during COVID

Above it says not to use this code for prophylactic isolation. Can you confirm that we should not use this code for some of the special isolation procecures during COVID? For example, precautions for patients using their own CPAP machines. AG REPLY -- as it says above, ONLY use this code if the person being isolated HAS (or turns out to have) the condition for which they're being isolated. Do not use it if it's prophylactic and they turn out NOT to have the condition.

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Collecting "CCI collect first" items

• "CCI collect first" items are entered the first time they happen
• Px Date
  • if an Acquired Procedure, enter them with the Px Date of the first time they happen
  • if an Admit Procedure leave the date blank and just enter the procedure
• Px Count is always 1 for this collection mode

Px Date for patients who move

See Px Date#Moves

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