Table 2. Patients identified with animal bites and injuries based on the E906.X codes, representing non-venomous animal bites and injuries.
ICD-9 Code | ICD-9 Code Description | Unique patientsper code | Non-cat bitepatients | Patients per codewith a cat bite | Additional cat bite patientsidentified (not listed inE906.3) | Total per codewith a dog bite | Additional dog bitepatients identified(not listed in E906.0) |
E906.0 | Dog bite | 1,087 | 1,061 | 26 | 16 | 1084 | N/A |
E906.1 | Rat bite | 27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
E906.2 | Bite by non-venomous snakes and lizards | 12 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
E906.3 | Bite by other animal except arthropod (e.g., cats, mice, squirrels, etc.) | 866 | 165 | 701 | N/A | 5 | 2 |
E906.4 | Bite by non-venomous arthropod (e.g., insects) | 630 | 624 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 6 |
E906.5 | Bite by unspecified animal | 174 | 113 | 61 | 8 | 13 | 5 |
E906.8 | Other specified injury caused by animal | 316 | 271 | 45 | 21 | 9 | 8 |
E906.9 | Unspecified injury caused by unspecified animal | 56 | 53 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
Overall* | 3,018 | 2,268 | 750 | 49 | 1,108 | 24 |
‘Overall’ represents the unique set of patients for all codes combined, with duplicates across codes removed. Some patients had more than one ICD code for their bite(s) and thus were in more than one code category.
N/A = not applicable.