Z79.51 Long term (current) use of inhaled steroids
Instructional Notes:
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Z79.51
Description: Long term (current) use of inhaled steroids
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Z79.5
Description: Long term (current) use of steroids
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Z79
Description: Long term (current) drug therapy
Exclude2:- drug abuse and dependence (F11-F19)
- drug use complicating pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (O99.32-)
- long term (current) drug use for prophylactic purposes
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Z77-Z99
Description: Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status (Z77-Z99)
Code Also: ['any follow-up examination (Z08-Z09)']
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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.