Question

Inpatient progress note: "sally is a ten hour old neonate who is having convulsions. neurological scans are ordered stat. there are no other significant findings on examination at this time." the diagnostic code(s) for this encounter are .

Answer 1

Diagnostic coding is the conversion of written accounts of sicknesses, diseases and wounds into codes from a precise grouping. In medical classification, diagnosis codes are used as a share of the clinical coding process together with intervention codes. So for the problem, the answer is P90. It is a billable ICD code used to stipulate an analysis of convulsions of newborn.