Instruction Source: Z62.21
Child in welfare custody
Instruction Source: Z62.2
Upbringing away from parents
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- problems with boarding school (Z59.3)
Instruction Source: Z62
Problems related to upbringing
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- maltreatment syndrome (T74.-)
- problems related to housing and economic circumstances (Z59.-)
Inclusion Terms
- current and past negative life events in childhood
- current and past problems of a child related to upbringing
Instruction Source: Z55-Z65
Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
Instruction Source: Z00-Z99
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services
Clinical Notes
- (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.
- 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: