Assignment of the pressure ulcer stage code should be. guided by clinical documentation. of the stage or. documentation of the terms found in the. Alphabetic. Index. For clinical terms describing the stage that are not. found in the Alphabetic Index, and there is no.
The World Health Organization (WHO) developed a classification system for MDS to standardize the definitions of the different subtypes. The 7 subtypes of MDS in this system include: Refractory anemia (RA). The primary sign of RA is anemia. White blood cell counts and platelet counts are healthy.
standard software, development tools, and logic for RUG-IV calculation. CMS software, or. private software developed with the CMS tools, is used to encode and transmit the MDS. assessment data and automatically calculates the RUG-IV group. CMS edits and validates the. RUG-IV group code of transmitted MDS assessments.