Medical Assistance In Dying

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ICD10 Diagnosis
Dx: Medical Assistance In Dying
ICD10 code: Z51.81
Pre-ICD10 counterpart: Medical Assistance In Dying (old)
Charlson/ALERT Scale: none
APACHE Como Component: none
APACHE Acute Component: none
Start Date: 2018-07-17
Stop Date:
External ICD10 Documentation

This diagnosis is a part of ICD10 collection.

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    • 2018-07-17
    • 2999-12-31
    • Z51.81
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Additional Info

Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) is a program that allows terminally ill patients to access the assistance of a physician to control the time and circumstances of their death. See links under #Program Details for more info.

See Deceased patients#General instructions for deceased patients and Guideline for coding organ donation after death.

Collection Instructions for MAID

  • Code this for patients who are admitted to your ward/unit either:
    • receive this assistance on the ward/unit
    • are moved to a special location directly from your unit for the purpose of receiving this assistance
  • Do not code this if the patient simply has a MAID consult, only if they're GOING TO GET IT in relation to the admission you're working on

Program Details

Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition

Candidate Combined ICD10 codes

Data Integrity Checks (automatic list)

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Query check ICD10 dx implying death must have appropriate dispoCCMDB.accdbimplemented
Query NDC dx implying death across encountersCentralized data front end.accdbimplemented

Legacy info

  • When we started out this dx used code U23, but then as of 2018-07-17 ICD10 actually added a code for this so we changed ours to that code. I don't really think we are interested in keeping that very early test data, so this comment can probably just go, and we can delete them. I am removing the code from our s_ICD10 table.
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