Code
Hierarchy
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Z00-Z99 Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
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Z40-Z53 Encounters for other specific health care (Z40-Z53)
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Z43 Encounter for attention to artificial openings
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Z43.0 Encounter for attention to tracheostomy
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Z43.1 Encounter for attention to gastrostomy
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Z43.2 Encounter for attention to ileostomy
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Z43.3 Encounter for attention to colostomy
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Z43.4 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of digestive tract
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Z43.5 Encounter for attention to cystostomy
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Z43.6 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings of urinary tract
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Z43.7 Encounter for attention to artificial vagina
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Z43.8 Encounter for attention to other artificial openings
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Z43.9 Encounter for attention to unspecified artificial opening
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Notes
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Z codes represent reasons for encounters. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a Z code if a procedure is performed. Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as 'diagnoses' or 'problems'. This can arise in two main ways:
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(a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination (immunization), or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.
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(b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury.
Inclusion Terms
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Categories Z40-Z53 are intended for use to indicate a reason for care. They may be used for patients who have already been treated for a disease or injury, but who are receiving aftercare or prophylactic care, or care to consolidate the treatment, or to deal with a residual state
Includes
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closure of artificial openings
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passage of sounds or bougies through artificial openings
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reforming artificial openings
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removal of catheter from artificial openings
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toilet or cleansing of artificial openings