Instruction Source: Z72.0
Tobacco use
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- history of tobacco dependence (Z87.891)
- nicotine dependence (F17.2-)
- tobacco dependence (F17.2-)
- tobacco use during pregnancy (O99.33-)
Instruction Source: Z72
Problems related to lifestyle
Excludes 2 (Not Included Here)
- problems related to life-management difficulty (Z73.-)
- problems related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances (Z55-Z65)
Instruction Source: Z69-Z76
Persons encountering health services in other circumstances (Z69-Z76)
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: