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    What are the aspects to diagnosis coding?

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    In healthcare, diagnostic codes are used to group and identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, human response patterns, and medical signs, and are used to measure morbidity and mortality. As the plural with the name of this lemma indicates, there will be never one code for all purposes, but many codes for some distinct purposes each.
    The codes may be quite frequently revised as new knowledge is attained. DSM (see below) changes some of its coding to correspond to the codes in ICD. In 2005, for example, DSM changed the diagnostic codes for circadian rhythm sleep disorders from the 307-group to the 327-group; the new codes reflect the moving of these disorders from the Mental Disorders section to the Neurological section in the ICD.[1] 


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