[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 89 (Wednesday, May 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 30942]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-11358]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


National Center for Health Statistics; ICD-9-CM E Code Revisions

AGENCY: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC), HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Center for Health Statistics has approved the 
following expansion to the External Cause Codes in the International 
Classification of Diseases, Ninth-Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-
9-CM). These ICD-9-CM E-Code revisions will become effective October 1, 
2002. The official government version of the ICD-9-CM that will include 
all of the code revisions can be found on the ICD-9-CM CD-ROM available 
through the Government Printing Office. Guidelines for the use of the 
new E-codes will appear on the CD-ROM and on the NCHS website http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm.

E885.0  Fall from (nonmotorized) scooter
E922.5   Accidental injury caused by paintball gun
E955.7  Suicide/self-inflicted injury caused by paintball gun
E979.0  Terrorism involving explosion of marine weapons
E979.1  Terrorism involving destruction of aircraft
E979.2  Terrorism involving other explosions and fragments
E979.3  Terrorism involving fires, conflagration and hot substances
E979.4  Terrorism involving firearms
E979.5  Terrorism involving nuclear weapons
E979.6  Terrorism involving biological weapons
E979.7  Terrorism involving chemical weapons
E979.8  Terrorism involving other means
E979.9  Terrorism, secondary effects
E985.7  Injury caused by paintball gun, undetermined whether 
accidentally or purposely inflicted
E999.0  Late effect of injury due to war operations
E999.1  Late effect of injury due to terrorism

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna Pickett, R.H.I.A., Co-chair, 
ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee, National Center for 
Health Statistics, CDC, telephone (301)-458-4200.
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    Dated: May 2, 2002.
Alvin Hall,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-11358 Filed 5-7-02; 8:45 am]
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