No Culture Sent or Resulted

92 - No Culture Sent

• This code should also be used when samples are rejected. In this instance,even if a sample is rejected, usually because of insufficient sample, you should still count the culture in the lab counts, see Lab Collection Process.

ICD10

Will be coded as Infectious organism, unknown.

Legacy

This used to be called simply "No Culture Sent", but to make the above info inherent, the label was changed to "No Culture Sent or Resulted".