Instruction Source: Z72.4
Inappropriate diet and eating habits
Excludes 1 (Mutually Exclusive)
- behavioral eating disorders of infancy or childhood (F98.2.-F98.3)
- eating disorders (F50.-)
- lack of adequate food (Z59.48)
- malnutrition and other nutritional deficiencies (E40-E64)
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: