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Repeated events

When one of the diagnoses in Categories Arrhythmia, Testing or Symptom/Sign happens repeatedly during the same ward or unit stay, only code the first one.

Example:

A person has a self-limited episode of A-fib. It goes away and then recurs. Only code the first one. A person has a self-limited episode of A-fib. It goes away but then he has an episode of V-tach. As this is a different diagnosis, both of these should be listed, but only code once each. Patient comes in with hypokalemia. It’s treated and remits, but the next day it recurs. Only code the first time.