Basics
Conventions
Structure
Terms
Miscellaneous
100
ICD was issued in 1993 by this group.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
100
Bold terms are referred to as this.
What are main terms?
100
This term describes a three character ICD code.
What is a category?
100
This term describes the cause of a disease or condition.
What is etiology?
100
This letter is the seventh character placeholder.
What is "X"?
200
This is the current numerical revision of ICD.
What is the tenth (10th)?
200
Items contained in parentheses are referred to as this.
What are non-essential modifiers?
200
This is the term to describe the 21 numeric divisions of ICD.
What are chapters?
200
This term describes a specific side of the body (right or left).
What is laterality?
200
The search for an ICD code should always begin in this section of the text.
What is the alphabetic index?
300
This is the portion of the ICD text organized numerically.
What is the Tabular List?
300
Synonyms, alternative words, and explanatory phrases are contained within these items.
What are brackets?
300
This term describes a four character ICD code.
What is a subcategory?
300
This is evidence or symptom of an illness or condition.
What is a manifestation?
300
This term describes when there is not enough space on a single line for an entry in the code book.
What is a carryover line?
400
There are a total of this many chapters in the ICD-10 text.
What is twenty-one (21)?
400
This abbreviation is used to indicate when a specific code is not available for a condition.
What is NEC (not elsewhere classified)?
400
This term describes a five to seven character ICD code.
What is a sub-classification?
400
A condition that is the consequence of a previous disease or injury.
What is sequela?
400
This ICD note describes an instance when the indicated condition cannot be assigned at the same time as the reported code.
What is an excludes 1?
500
This National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is responsible for this ICD classification system identified by a two letter suffix.
What is CM (Clinical Modification)?
500
This abbreviation is used as the equivalent of unspecified.
What is NOS (not otherwise specified)?
500
This term describes the item listed next to and most commonly associated with the main term.
What is a default code?
500
This describes the cross-walking of corresponding diagnosis codes between the ICD-9 and ICD-10 code sets.
What is mapping (GEM - General Equivalence Mapping)?
500
This is a mandatory cross-reference - an explicit instruction to look elsewhere in the code book.
What is "see"?
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