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The expansion of healthcare delivery systems and changes in global health trends prompted a need for codes with improved clinical accuracy and specificity. [49] The alphanumeric coding in ICD-10 is an improvement from ICD-9 which had a limited number of codes and a restrictive structure. [49]
Usually, the atypical causes also involve atypical symptoms: No response to common antibiotics such as sulfonamide [5] and beta-lactams like penicillin.; No signs and symptoms of lobar consolidation, [6] [7] meaning that the infection is restricted to small areas, rather than involving a whole lobe.
List of ICD-9 codes 140–239: neoplasms; List of ICD-9 codes 240–279: endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders; List of ICD-9 codes 280–289: diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs; List of ICD-9 codes 290–319: mental disorders; List of ICD-9 codes 320–389: diseases of the nervous system and sense organs
The ICD-9-CM is based on the ICD-9 but provides for additional morbidity detail. It was updated annually on October 1. [15] [16] It consists three volumes: Volumes 1 and 2 contain diagnosis codes. (Volume 1 is a tabular listing, and volume 2 is an index.) Extended for ICD-9-CM
ICD-9 chapters; Chapter Block Title I 001–139: Infectious and Parasitic Diseases II 140–239: Neoplasms III 240–279: Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases, and Immunity Disorders IV 280–289: Diseases of the Blood and Blood-forming Organs V 290–319: Mental Disorders VI 320–389: Diseases of the Nervous System and Sense Organs ...
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
Lobar pneumonia is a form of pneumonia characterized by inflammatory exudate within the intra-alveolar space resulting in consolidation that affects a large and continuous area of the lobe of a lung.
This is a shortened version of the sixteenth chapter of the ICD-9: Symptoms, Signs and Ill-defined Conditions. It covers ICD codes 780 to 799. The full chapter can be found on pages 455 to 471 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9. Volume 2 is an alphabetical index of Volume 1.