Overview of Determining Morbidity and Mortality Codes for Covid-19 Patients at Imelda Hospital Medan

Abstract

The COVID-19 morbidity code is used to determine the primary condition and secondary condition of a COVID-19 patient condition obtained during an episode of health care that is very important in hospital reporting, where from the morbidity data, the number of patients discharged (live and dead) and the formulation and health programs is obtained. At the same time, the COVID-19 death code is the main source for filling out patient death certificates. Death certificates will be used to report deaths, which are very useful for hospitals to evaluate service quality and the need for medical personnel and equipment to determine the morbidity and mortality code in COVID-19 patients at the Imelda Indonesian Workers General Hospital Medan in 2021. The method used in this research is observation and structured interviews. The results in this study are the number of patients from January to March 2021 who confirmed COVID-19, including 44 morbidity patients and 8 mortality patients, with suspected COVID-19 including 31 mortality patients. COVID-19 health workers, however, do not implement mortality coding for COVID-19 patients. The Imelda General Hospital of Indonesian Workers carries out the provision of a morbidity code for COVID-19 patients but does not carry out the provision of a mortality code for COVID-19 patients.