Z22.4 Carrier of infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission

Instructional Notes:

Z22.4
Description: Carrier of infections with a predominantly sexual mode of transmission
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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)
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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.