Exam 25: External Causes of Morbidity

The external cause code for walking into a wall, initial encounter, is _______.

The external cause code for exposure to laser radiation for an initial encounter is _____.

Category Y93 is used to describe the activity of the patient at the time the injury or other health condition occurred and is reported for the initial and subsequent visits.

The external cause code for a fall from bed, initial encounter, is ____________________.

The external cause of morbidity codes can be used with any of the other codes from the A00.0-T88.9 and Z00-Z99 classification that is a health condition due to an external cause.

Tommy Jones was ice skating and collided with a pole. The external cause code for this initial encounter is _______.

Mrs. Smith was in the yard at Sunny Valley Nursing home and sustained an injury. The place of occurrence code for this case is ____________________.

External-cause codes for terrorism events take priority over all other external cause codes except _____.

Category X15 reports _____.

The external cause code for assault by handgun discharge is reported with a code from category _____.

The external cause code for a fall from babystroller, initial encounter, is code _____.

Intentional self-harm is reported with codes from code block ____________________.

The selection of the appropriate external-cause code is guided by the Index to Diseases.

The infection control committee reviewed surgery case number 3345 and determined that there was a failure to use proper sterile precautions during an abdominal endoscopic examination. The external cause code to report this misadventure would be ____________________.

Adult and child abuse, neglect, and maltreatment are classified as assault.

A late-effect external cause code should never be used with a related current nature of injury code.

The external cause code for an initial encounter due to exposure to bed fire due to a burning cigarette is code _____.

An external cause code, with the appropriate seventh character, is assigned for each encounter for which the injury or condition is being treated.

Codes for the place of occurrence of the external cause from category Y92 are secondary codes for use after other external-cause codes to identify the location of the patient at the time of injury or other condition.

Sally Swim was swimming in the ocean and was struck by a shark. The external cause code for an initial encounter for this case would be _____.