Code
Hierarchy
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Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
Notes
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The codes in this category are provided for use as additional codes to identify the resistance and non-responsiveness of a condition to antimicrobial drugs.
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Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
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(a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
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(b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.
Code First
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the infection
Excludes 1
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Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection (A49.02)
- A49.02 Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, unspecified site
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Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (J15.212)
- J15.212 Pneumonia due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- A41.02 Sepsis due to Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus