A: Someone with consistently high protein in the urine may have kidney disease, but other causes could include a buildup of abnormal proteins in the organs called amyloidosis, diabetes, hypertension, Hodgkin's disease or sickle cell anemia, states Mayo Clinic. High protein may also result from leukemia, lupus, heart disease or pregnancy.
The circumstances of inpatient admission always govern the selection of principal diagnosis. The principal diagnosis is defined in the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) as âthat condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospital for care.â.
Diagnosis codes are generally used as a representation of admitted episodes in health care settings. The principal diagnosis, additional diagnoses alongside intervention codes essentially depict a patient's admission to a hospital.