Kitchen of unsp non-institut (private) residence as place

This code indicates that an injury or adverse event occurred within the kitchen area of a private home or dwelling that is not a healthcare facility. It specifies the location of the incident as a residential kitchen, without further detail about the type of residence.

This code is appropriate for documenting the place of occurrence for injuries such as burns from cooking, falls on kitchen floors, cuts from kitchen utensils, or poisoning from household products stored in the kitchen. It should be used when the patient's home kitchen is the site of the external cause of their condition.

• Always assign this as a secondary code to specify the external cause of injury.
• Ensure the medical record clearly states the incident occurred in the patient's kitchen at home.
• Do not use if the incident occurred in a kitchen within a healthcare facility (e.g., nursing home, hospital).