Diagnostic Summary

The Diagnostic Summary page presents a patient's diagnostic history in two ways.

The first table summarizes all billing diagnoses over the last two years and the client's entire history. Selecting the specified links will take you to the history of the diagnostic category.

The second table presents diagnoses grouped into the 31 diagnostic categories that form the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index. The Elixhauser Comorbidity Index is a research tool used to predict early mortality among inpatients. It is being tested here for ambulatory care patients**. Having a diagnosis within the three main groupings (Medical, Mental Health, Substance Abuse) determines whether a patient is considered morbid, co-morbid, or tri-morbid. The ability to identify tri-morbid and co-morbid chronic, or urgent, conditions is expected to add risk assessment value. The higher the morbidity, and the higher the number of diagnostic categories filled correlate with greater chance of early mortality.

**Counts are shown only for those diagnostic categories with records of four or more related billings from the patient's "All History." Please note that the HIV/AIDS category includes testing and does not necessarily reflect incidence.