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.
Most of these types are determined by the the blood and the bone marrow look under the microscope. One type is defined by a certain chromosome change in the bone marrow cells. Because small differences in the way the cells look can change the diagnosis, doctors may sometimes disagree on a patientâs exact type of MDS.he number of blasts (very early cells) in the bone marrow is less than 5% and none of the blasts contain Auer rods (an abnormality seen in some leukemia cells). Blasts are rare or absent in the blood. RCMD changes into leukemia in about 10% of patients. Having this type of MDS will shorten a personâs life.