Palliative Service
Legacy Content
This page is about the pre-ICD10 diagnosis coding schema. See the ICD10 Diagnosis List, or the following for similar diagnoses in ICD10:Palliative careClick Expand to show legacy content.
Code Palliative Service for Medicine and ICU database program only if the patient is either under the care of Palliative Service Team or that this Service has been consulted, even if the patient was not accepted to that service.- Task team review: April 10.14.Trish Ostryzniuk 17:08, 2014 April 10 (CDT)
Go to: Comfort Care for collection instructions on that care goal.
Coding Instruction for Palliative Care Service
Palliative Service code should only be used as follows:
- ADMIT slots:
- only if the patient has been previously enrolled in palliative care service and they are involved in the patients care.
- when a patient is accepted to medicine or ICU service by attending physician while in ER and also, during this time, the attending physician also writes a request to consult palliative services, then this code can be used in admit DX slot.
- COMPLICATION slots:
- only if there is an actual consultation for Palliative Services after ward admission even if the patient was not accepted to that service.
Purpose and Use
Related data
The diagnosis code Palliative Service is unrelated to a patient having ACP C or Comfort Care orders, but you might be able to code Comfort Care in that circumstance.
See also: Category:End-of-life related data
Legacy info
Before Nov 11, 2013 "90400 - "Palliative Care" used to be applied as a code if a patient was either: comfort care, ACP C, palliation, end of life care or consulted to palliative care service.