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.
In general, MDS is a disease of older adults, with a median age at diagnosis of approximately 71 years with a male predominance. With the exception of treatment-induced MDS (MDS that develops following chemotherapy or radiation treatment for another cancer), age of onset prior to 50 is uncommon.