Template:ICD10 Guideline follow up Care only

This template is used in Surgical follow-up care and Admit Procedure to give consistent special case instructions.

To use:

{{ICD10 Guideline follow up Care only}}

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Admission solely for follow up care

If

• a patient is admitted to our ward/unit solely for Surgical follow-up care
• the procedure itself would not have been coded by us because the first post-procedure ward was not one where we collect (or wasn't even at a WPG hospital)

Then

• Code Surgical follow-up care
• code the CCI procedure that is being followed up as Admit Procedure, removing FOR THIS USAGE ONLY any rules that would stop you from coding a procedure as an Admit Procedure

Example:

Patient returns from organ transplant in Toronto without any major complications, just to continue recovery before eventual successful discharge.

For this usage, there is no time limit on when the procedure was done but nonetheless it must include the judgement that the reason for this admission was "routine" followup surgical care related to that procedure --- AS OPPOSED TO admission for some complication of that procedure.

If instead the admission was for a complication of that procedure, and not routine followup surgical care, then don't code the procedure itself and instead code the complication as the Admit Diagnosis, and as a Comorbid Diagnosis one of the "Past medical history" codes:

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