The Chapter-Specific Guidelines for Chapter 19, Injury, Poisoning, and Certain

The chapter-specific guidelines for Chapter 19, Injury, Poisoning, and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes contain information about:

A) coding of reasons other than illness or injury for patient encounters, such as inoculations, vaccinations, contact or suspected exposure to disease, patient status, family or personal history of a medical condition
B) coding injuries, fractures, burns, adverse effects, underdosing, poisoning, and toxic effects; a description of seventh-character extenders are included in this chapter
C) coding the cause of an injury or condition as related to outside causes, including use and sequencing of codes for external causes, place of occurrence, abuse, and acts of terrorism
D) coding for osteoporosis and pathologic fractures