Cumulative Official WHO Updates to ICD 10 - 1996 - 2001

The coder must access the ICD-10-CM Index to External Causes because a blood alcohol level is an external cause of a condition and not itself a disease. The main term is “blood alcohol level” with subterms for the various measurements of the blood alcohol level in the patient. ... persistent or chronic, intractable or not intractable, with ... ................
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