External cause codes explain:

A) how a patient became injured.
B) where an injury occurred.
C) what the physician did for the patient.
D) how a patient was injured and where an injury occurred.

External Cause Codes

Codes that classify environmental events, circumstances, and conditions as the cause of injury, poisoning, and other adverse effects.

Physician

A professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.