Adding detail with postcoordination

Qualify an ICD-11 code in Rhazes with severity, laterality and its other axes, so the code records the specific clinical picture.

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What postcoordination is

Some ICD-11 codes can be qualified with extra detail: which side, how severe, what caused it. Combining a base code with those qualifiers is postcoordination, and it is how ICD-11 records a specific clinical picture rather than an approximate one.

Doing it

Open a code and Rhazes shows the axes it supports, with the values available on each. Choose the ones the record supports and save.

ICD-11 only

Postcoordination is a feature of ICD-11. It does not apply to SNOMED or to your own uploaded standards.

Only what is documented

Add a qualifier because the record supports it, not because the axis exists. An unsupported qualifier is a coding error in exactly the same way a wrong base code is.

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