Infectious organism, unknown

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ICD10 Diagnosis
Dx: Infectious organism, unknown
ICD10 code: U22.9
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: Negative Culture, No Culture Sent or Resulted, Unknown Pathogen
Charlson/ALERT Scale: none
APACHE Como Component: none
APACHE Acute Component: none
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    • U22.9
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Additional Info

This is not a standard ICD10 code but a ICD10 Custom code. We added it for the following reason:
We needed to track some pathogens that do not have a specific ICD10 code.

See Non-standard ICD10 Diagnoses for other codes like this.

  • This is the "pathogen code" to use when there is a presumed infection and the organism is unknown. This occurs for any of the following possible reasons:
    • No cultures were sent or resulted
    • Cultures were sent but they were negative (negative cultures) or the lab reports "normal flora" or "mixed normal flora"
    • As the bug for any of the sepsis codes, in the presence of MORE THAN ONE specific infection (e.g. pneumonia and UTI) having DIFFERENT bugs.
  • When the pathogen was isolated and therefore is known, but it is not in our list of specific pathogens, then use one or another of the following:
    • Bacteria, NOS
    • Virus, NOS
    • Fungus or yeast, NOS

When a code in category:potential infection is not an infection, code Not an Infection (ICD10 pathogen alternative) with it instead of this code to satisfy cross-checks.

Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition

Virus codes:
Non-specific pathogens codes:
Pathogens codes:

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