The WHO is not our dad but if you want your disease coded in classification and terminology systems for medical records, data reporting and...
a) It is Melvin Ramsay not "Ramsey". b) The WHO is removing the apostrophe "s" from eponyms [1], for example: Down syndrome - not Down's...
Comments on proposals presented at the March meeting of the ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee should be sent to the following email...
Details on the various ways of accessing the meeting don't appear to have been included in the Diagnosis Codes Topic Packet, although they usually...
Note: On Page 127 of the March 7-8 C&M meeting Topic Packet: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/Topic-packet-March-7-8-final-3-2-23.pdf Under...
Some cancer patients might also consider themselves stakeholders in a proposal to add a code for PEM to the Symptoms, signs chapter: 2020...
Right, so no rep from the five supporting ME orgs will be participating in this virtual meeting. I'm not intending to submit comment to...
Topic Packet released yesterday, but as far as I can see, the five ME groups supporting this initiative have yet to post anything at all about...
If the proposal is being considered for implementation on October 1, 2024, then the public comment period would be a little over 8 weeks following...
Is there any data available yet or research being undertaken into what is happening to those patients with a historically assigned R53.82 code?...
Medfeb wrote: Is there not a potential danger that patients who meet the criteria for a new diagnosis of G93.32 ME; ME/CFS; CFS might initially...
The full agenda (aka "Topic Packet") is now available for the March 7-8 ICD-10-CM CDC/NCHS Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting from...
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-Post-COVID-19-condition-CA-Clinical-case-definition-2023-1 A clinical case definition for...
Extracts from the FY 2023 ICD-10-CM Guidelines: "Chapter 18: Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere...
I'm not going to spend time arguing the toss about this.
To clarify, I have not suggested nor implied that the proposal calls or should call for an "explicit excludes2 between PEM and G93.32." I am...
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In the preface to ICD-10-CM's Chapter 6: Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99) there is a list of "Excludes2" for, among others, the code...
The situations are not comparable. You and I submitted that proposal to ICD-11 in March 2017 as individuals, ie not representing specific...
Response from Lisa McCorkell: [MEDIA]
Separate names with a comma.
