Z81: Family history of mental and behavioural disorders
There is someone in your family with a mental illness or a behavioral disorder.
Mental illnesses include addictions and disorders involving big mood swings, for example. A behavioral disorder may be, for example, that someone behaves very conspicuously and endangers others in the process. With some mental illnesses and behavioral disorders there is an elevated risk that other family members might get ill.
Additional indicator
On medical documents, the ICD code is often appended by letters that indicate the diagnostic certainty or the affected side of the body.
- G: Confirmed diagnosis
- V: Tentative diagnosis
- Z: Condition after
- A: Excluded diagnosis
- L: Left
- R: Right
- B: Both sides
Further information
Note
This information is not intended for self-diagnosis and does not replace professional medical advice from a doctor. If you find an ICD code on a personal medical document, please also note the additional indicator used for diagnostic confidence.Your doctor will assist you with any health-related questions and explain the ICD diagnosis code to you in a direct consultation if necessary.
Source
Provided by the non-profit organization “Was hab’ ich?” gemeinnützige GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).