NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
HEALTH INFORMATICS
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Diagnosis:Bilateral infectious pneumococcal pneumonia. What is the MAIN term for the ICD-9 code?
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Bilateral
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Infectious
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Pnuemococcal
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Pneumonia
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -ICD-9-CM is the official system of assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures associated with hospital utilization in the United States. The ICD-9 was used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates until 1999, when use of ICD-10 for mortality coding started.
Detailed explanation-2: -J18 Pneumonia, organism unspecified.
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