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Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), also known as black typhus or Ordog Fever, is a hemorrhagic fever and zoonotic infectious disease originating in Bolivia after infection by Machupo mammarenavirus. [2] BHF was first identified in 1963 as an ambisense RNA virus of the Arenaviridae family, [3] [4] by a research group led by Karl Johnson. The ...
ICD-9-CM: Volumes 1 and 2 only. Volume 3 contains Procedure codes: ICD-10: The international standard since about 1998 ICPC-2: Also includes reasons for encounter (RFE), procedure codes and process of care International Classification of Sleep Disorders: NANDA: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Primarily psychiatric disorders
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
ICD versions before ICD-9 are not in use anywhere. [16] ICD-9 was published in 1977, and superseded by ICD-10 in 1994. The last version of ICD-10 was published in 2019, and it was replaced by ICD-11 on 1 January 2022. [17] As of February 2022, 35 of the 194 member states have made the transition to the latest version of the ICD. [18]
Adoption of ICD-10-CM was slow in the United States. Since 1979, the US had required ICD-9-CM codes [11] for Medicare and Medicaid claims, and most of the rest of the American medical industry followed suit. On 1 January 1999 the ICD-10 (without clinical extensions) was adopted for reporting mortality, but ICD-9-CM was still used for morbidity ...
BMP: basic metabolic panel: BMR: basal metabolic rate: BMS: bare-metal stent: BMT: bone marrow transplantation: BNO: bowel not open BNP: brain natriuretic peptide: BO: bowel open B/O: because of BOA: born out of asepsis: BOI: born on island (i.e. a local patient) BOLT: Bilateral Orthotopic Lung Transplant BOM: bilateral otitis media: BOOP ...
A spotted fever is a type of tick-borne disease which presents on the skin. [1] They are all caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia. Typhus is a group of similar diseases also caused by Rickettsia bacteria, but spotted fevers and typhus are different clinical entities. Transmission process: When the tick latches on, it needs to be removed ...
The ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) is a set of diagnosis codes used in the United States of America. [1] It was developed by a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, [ 2 ] as an adaption of the ICD-10 with authorization from the World Health Organization .