Bathroom in boarding-house as place

This code identifies a specific location where an injury or adverse event occurred: a bathroom situated within a boarding house. It indicates that the patient's external cause of morbidity originated in this particular type of residential facility's washroom area.

Use this code when documenting an injury, poisoning, or other external cause that took place in a bathroom of a boarding house. This would include incidents such as falls, burns, or chemical exposures that occurred within that specific setting.

• Always assign this as a secondary code, following the primary code for the external cause (e.g., fall, poisoning).
• Ensure the medical record explicitly states the incident occurred in a "boarding house" bathroom, not just a general residential bathroom.
• Verify that the patient was a resident or present in the boarding house at the time of the incident.