ICD-11 code : 24;
Preferred Label : Factors influencing health status or contact with health services;
ICD-11 definition : Categories in this chapter are provided for occasions when circumstances other than
a disease, injury or external cause classifiable elsewhere are recorded as diagnoses
or problems. This can arise in two main ways: 1.\tWhen 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 or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a
disease or injury. 2.\tWhen some circumstance or problem is present which influences
the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury. Such
circumstance or problem may be elicited during population surveys, when the person
may or may not be currently sick, or be recorded as additional information to be borne
in mind when the person is receiving care for some illness or injury.;
ICD-11 "other" category code : QF4Y;
ICD-11 "unspecified" category code : QF4Z;
Origin ID : 1249056269;
Metaterm(s)
Categories in this chapter are provided for occasions when circumstances other than
a disease, injury or external cause classifiable elsewhere are recorded as diagnoses
or problems. This can arise in two main ways: 1.\tWhen 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 or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a
disease or injury. 2.\tWhen some circumstance or problem is present which influences
the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury. Such
circumstance or problem may be elicited during population surveys, when the person
may or may not be currently sick, or be recorded as additional information to be borne
in mind when the person is receiving care for some illness or injury.
