Bronchitis, chronic, infectious or noninfectious
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ICD10 Diagnosis | |
Dx: | Bronchitis, chronic, infectious or noninfectious |
ICD10 code: | J42 |
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: | Bronchitis |
Charlson/ALERT Scale: | Chronic pulmonary disease |
APACHE Como Component: | Respiratory |
APACHE Acute Component: | 2019-0: COPD |
Start Date: | 2018-11-25 |
Stop Date: | |
External ICD10 Documentation |
This diagnosis is a part of ICD10 collection.
Additional Info
Acute vs chronic
- This code is for bronchitis or tracheobronchitis that is chronic.
- To code bronchitis or tracheobronchitis that is acute, code Lower respiratory tract infection, acute infectious.
- To code bronchitis or tracheobronchitis for which it is not clear if it is chronic or acute, use Bronchitis, acute or chronic not specified, infectious or noninfectious
COPD context
- A potential source confusion is that this code is different from the "Chronic bronchitis" that is a form of COPD.
- Part of the reason this is confusing is that sometimes clinicians use "Chronic bronchitis" and "COPD" interchangeably if the patient is the so-called "blue bloater" phenotype of COPD.
- So, if your patient just has the chronic bronchitis form of COPD (with or without exacerbation) use COPD, without exacerbation or COPD, acute exacerbation.
- On the other hand, use Bronchitis, chronic, infectious or noninfectious if they have it in the ABSENCE of COPD.
Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition
Lower respiratory tract infection codes: |
Candidate Combined ICD10 codes
Related CCI Codes
Data Integrity Checks (automatic list)
App | Status | |
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Query check ICD10 Inf Potential Infection must have pathogen or alt | CCMDB.accdb | declined |
Query Check Inf Pathogens must have Infection requiring pathogen or Potential Infection | CCMDB.accdb | implemented |
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