ICD-10 Clinic Advanced - Book 1: Abstracting the Complex Record

This is the first book of the Advanced series. You can already find a code and put codes in order. Now you learn to work from the whole chart: which document proves what, when to ask the doctor, how present on admission is decided, and how the finished record is written on an abstraction sheet. The worked cases are sepsis and diabetes records, because those are the two that punish sloppy abstracting hardest.

The ten chapters:

1. From coding to abstracting

2. The documents and their weight

3. What counts as evidence

4. The query

5. Present on admission

6. The abstraction sheet

7. The sepsis ladder

8. The diabetes chapter

9. Two diseases, one kidney

10. The release checklist

Twenty-five A4 pages in full colour. Every chapter closes with its rule stated in a single line, so you can revise the whole book from the rules alone. Then a two-page Coding Lab working full records step by step, a page of the eight pitfalls that cost the most marks, fifteen practice questions with a worked answer for every one, and a glossary.

Written in short sentences and plain English, for readers whose first language is not English and clearer for everyone else because of it.

Every ICD-10-CM code in this book was verified against the official 2026 code set before the file was made. Instant PDF download. By M.R. Sterling.