E-code definition

E-code means external cause code, an etiology included in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
E-code means a Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Injury and Poisoning, ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM, where environmental events, circumstances, and conditions are the cause of injury, poisoning, and other adverse effects as specified in the ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM manual and the conventions of coding.
E-code means a numeric identifier that defines the cause of injury, taken from the ICD.

More Definitions of E-code

E-code means a Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Injury and Poisoning ICD-9-CM codes where environmental events, circumstances, and conditions are the cause of injury, poisoning and other adverse effects as specified in the ICD-9-CM manual and the conventions of coding.
E-code means an International Classification of Diseases code that is used:
E-code means external cause code, an etiology in- cluded in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
E-code means the environmental events, circumstances, and conditions that caused the injury, poisoning, and other adverse effects.
E-code means external cause code, an etiology included in
E-code means an International Classification of Dis- eases code that is used: