When the cause of an injury is identified by the FBI as terrorism, the first-listed external-cause code should be a code from category Y38, Terrorism.

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According to the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, when the cause of an injury is identified as terrorism, the first-listed external-cause code should be from category Y38, Terrorism.

When the Cause of an Injury Is Identified by the FBI