ICD-10: Z77

Other contact with and (suspected) exposures hazardous to health

Clinical Information

Includes

  • contact with and (suspected) exposures to potential hazards to health

Coding Guidelines

Excludes 2

  • toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source (T51-T65)
  • newborn affected by noxious substances transmitted via placenta or breast milk (P04.-)
  • occupational exposure to risk factors (Z57.-)
  • contact with and (suspected) exposure to communicable diseases (Z20.-)
  • exposure to (parental) (environmental) tobacco smoke in the perinatal period (P96.81)
  • retained foreign body fully removed (Z87.821)
  • retained foreign body (Z18.-)

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