ICD-10 Clinic - Book 15: Signs, Symptoms and R Codes

The capstone, and the book that ties the other fourteen together. Every patient arrives with a symptom, and what happens to that symptom in the coded record is where a great deal of coding goes wrong. This book gives you the three short rules that decide whether a symptom becomes the diagnosis, disappears into one, or is coded alongside it. It sets the outpatient rule and the inpatient rule side by side and shows the same sentence producing two different, correct answers. It covers abnormal findings and the R codes you will meet every day. Then it takes one complete hospital record and codes it from beginning to end, using every book in the series, with each decision traced back to the rule it came from. Fifteen exercises with worked answers.

Twenty-five A4 pages, in full colour. 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.