Wiki Location in HPI- how many?

[nikita0872]

Years ago I read that you can count more than (1) location in the HPI and I can't seem to find any references for it. Example:

Patient comes in has headache for 3 days and for the last month has abdominal pain with some diarrhea.

Would you count location twice since it's 2 different areas of the body that are not related?

Thank you!

 

[ERcoder12]

I would not count it twice. Regardless of how many times location is documented it is still just one element.

 

[penguins11]

I would also not count twice.