For ICD-10 diagnosis codes, those details should include factors such as location, laterality (right, left, unilateral, bilateral), acute, chronic, initial encounter, subsequent encounter, with complication, without complication, with or without infection, and so on. When you’re treating a patient...
Postoperative infection rates in foot and ankle surgery: a clinical audit of Australian podiatric surgeons, January to December 2007 Background. Surgical site infections are one of the most common post-operative complications encountered by foot and ankle surgeons. The incidence reported... P ...
If the pain is not specified as acute or chronic, do not assign codes from category 338, except for post- thoracotomy pain, postoperative pain or neoplasm related pain. A code from subcategories 338.1 and 338.2 should not be assigned if the underlying (definitive) diagnosis is known, unless ...
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