Examples of External Causes in a sentence
The Alphabetic Index consists of the following parts: the Index of Diseases and Injury, the Index of External Causes of Injury, the Table of Neoplasms and the Table of Drugs and Chemicals.
Unless a provider is subject to a state-based external cause code reporting mandate or these codes are required by a particular payer, reporting of ICD-10-CM codes in Chapter 20, External Causes of Morbidity, is not required.
Causes were coded using the Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Injury and Poisoning (E-codes), International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) (12).
The selection of the appropriate external cause code is guided by the Alphabetic Index of External Causes and by Inclusion and Exclusion notes in the Tabular List.
First, the verbatim text can be used by researchers to assign records to injury classification schemes other than the “Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Injury and Poisoning” found in the ICD-9-CM, if so desired.