The 2017 Coders Desk Reference for Diagnoses provides thousands of clinical descriptions of diseases, disease processes, injuries, poisonings, and other conditions to help both novices and seasoned coders attain the knowledge and skill necessary to accurately identify and assign the most specific ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for each condition.\With these clinical definitions and focus points, you can reduce coding errors and improve coding confidence by gaining a better understanding of the clinical meanings behind the codes.

'Coder's Desk Reference"

Prefixes and suffixes -- Abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols -- Anatomy charts -- Certain infectious and parasitic diseases -- Neoplasms -- Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism -- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases -- Mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders -- Diseases of the nervous system -- Diseases of the eye and adnexa -- Diseases of the ear and mastoid process -- Diseases of the circulatory system -- Diseases of the respiratory system -- Diseases of the digestive system -- Disease of the skin and subcutaneous tissue -- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue -- Diseases of the genitourinary system -- Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium -- Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period -- Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities -- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified -- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes -- External causes of morbidity -- Factors influencing health status and contact with health services.