Title: Module 4: Discussion:Sequencing a Diagnosis
Course: Introduction to Coding and Classification Systems > Section: Module 4: Coding Diseases of the Respiratory, Digestive and Genitourinary Systems

The patient is admitted to the hospital with severe Staphylococcus aureus sepsis and acute respiratory failure.  Discuss how the diagnosis should be sequenced and why?  In addition, give an example of when respiratory failure would be sequenced as a secondary diagnosis.  Reference:  Chapter 15.