Should natural death be a "billable" ICD-9 code?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-286

  Lamba, Sangeeta ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LORAZEPAM;

AGITATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DEATH; DYING; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LAW; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SHORT SURVEY; TERMINAL CARE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CASE REPORT; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 48949120259     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00063.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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