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.
Factors that determine which type of MDS a person has include: 1  How many types of blood cells are affected. 2  In some types of myelodysplastic syndrome, only one kind of blood cell is abnormal or low in number, such as red blood cells. 3  In other kinds of MDS, more than one type of blood cell is involved.