Understand urination frequency (pollakiuria), including its clinical documentation, medical coding (ICD-10), and differential diagnosis. Learn about frequent urination causes, symptoms, and treatments. This resource covers relevant healthcare terminology for both patients and medical professionals seeking information on increased urinary frequency, nocturia, overactive bladder (OAB), and related urological conditions. Explore diagnostic criteria, management strategies, and medical coding best practices for accurate clinical documentation of urination frequency.
Also known as
Frequency of urination
Increased frequency of urination.
Urinary urgency
Sudden compelling desire to urinate.
Dysuria NOS
Painful or difficult urination, unspecified.
Other disorders of urinary system
Includes other specified urinary disorders.
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Is frequency due to pregnancy?
Yes
Code O26.84 Other specified disorders of micturition in pregnancy
No
Is frequency due to prostate issue?
When to use each related code
Description |
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Frequent urination |
Overactive bladder |
Polyuria |
Coding frequent urination without specifying nocturia, urgency, or other symptoms leads to inaccurate severity and reimbursement.
Misdiagnosis between UTI and other conditions like BPH or diabetes can impact appropriate treatment and coding accuracy for urinary frequency.
Insufficient documentation of frequency, onset, and associated symptoms hinders accurate code assignment and compliance audits for urinary frequency diagnoses.
Patient presents with a chief complaint of frequent urination (urinary frequency, pollakiuria). Onset of increased urinary frequency is reported as [Onset - e.g., gradual over the past three months, acute onset two days ago]. Frequency is described as [Frequency Description - e.g., voiding every hour, needing to urinate multiple times during the night (nocturia), constant urge to urinate (urgency)]. Patient denies [Pertinent Negatives - e.g., dysuria, hematuria, fever, chills, flank pain]. Associated symptoms include [Associated Symptoms, if any - e.g., urgency, hesitancy, weak stream, incomplete emptying]. Patient's medical history includes [Relevant Medical History - e.g., diabetes mellitus type 2, benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinary tract infections, overactive bladder]. Current medications include [Current Medications]. Physical examination reveals [Physical Exam Findings - e.g., suprapubic tenderness, enlarged prostate on digital rectal exam, normal costovertebral angle tenderness]. Differential diagnosis includes urinary tract infection, overactive bladder, diabetes mellitus, benign prostatic hyperplasia, interstitial cystitis, prostate cancer. Preliminary diagnosis is urinary frequency. Plan includes [Plan - e.g., urinalysis, urine culture, post-void residual measurement, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) if indicated, uroflowmetry, referral to urology if indicated]. Patient education provided on bladder health, fluid management, and potential underlying causes of urinary frequency. Follow-up scheduled in [Duration - e.g., two weeks, one month] to review results and discuss further management.