DESCRIPTION |
This term should contain any abdominal imaging that might have been done
1201 ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM PRESENT
1202 DOES NOT SATISFY SCREEN FOR AAA
Once those diagnostic codes are in use by Radiology, any procedure that
you have included in this reminder term will resolve the AAA screening
reminder if either of the first 2 codes (1200, 1201) are used as the
primary or secondary code for that procedure report.
for another indication but where the evaluation of the abdominal aorta
for AAA was completed. This term should ONLY contain radiology procedure
(RP) type finding since it uses a condition to find any diagnostic codes
that represent adequate assessment of the abdominal aorta.
The diagnostic codes for AAA screening are included in patch RA*5.0*97
and include the following:
1200 ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM NOT PRESENT
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