A co-morbidity is a disease or condition which exists ...

However it can be useful to think about comorbidities in this way when coding. If a condition is present and is described as ‘acute’ it is unlikely that it could be regarded as a background comorbidity. Active problems. Coders will be familiar with coding the active problems relevant to an SMR01 episode. To do this they rely on the clinical ... ................
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