Z22.321 Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus
Instructional Notes:
Z22.321 Description: Carrier or suspected carrier of Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Inclusion Term:
MSSA colonization
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Z22.32 Description: Carrier of bacterial disease due to staphylococci ↓
Z22.3 Description: Carrier of other specified bacterial diseases ↓
Z22 Description: Carrier of infectious disease Exclude2:
carrier of viral hepatitis (B18.-)
Include:
colonization status
suspected carrier
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Z20-Z29 Description: Persons with potential health hazards related to communicable diseases (Z20-Z29) ↓
Z00-Z99 Description: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services Notes:
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:
(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.
(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.