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.
It rarely progresses to AML.Hypoplastic MDS is a syndrome that is similar to a type of anemia, and patients with this syndrome have low numbersof blood cells in the bone marrow, where these cells are produced.