False labor before 37 completed weeks of gestation
Non-billable header
O47.0 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
Inclusion terms
Includes (from O47)
- Braxton Hicks contractions
- threatened labor
- Note: CODES FROM THIS CHAPTER ARE FOR USE ONLY ON MATERNAL RECORDS, NEVER ON NEWBORN RECORDS
- Note: Codes from this chapter are for use for conditions related to or aggravated by the pregnancy, childbirth, or by the puerperium (maternal causes or obstetric causes)
- Note: Trimesters are counted from the first day of the last menstrual period. They are defined as follows:
- Note: 1st trimester- less than 14 weeks 0 days
- Note: 2nd trimester- 14 weeks 0 days to less than 28 weeks 0 days
- Note: 3rd trimester- 28 weeks 0 days until delivery
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
Use additional code
Add a code to identify the following, if applicable.
Also known as
- False, labor, before 37 completed weeks of gestation
- Pregnancy, complicated by, false labor, before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy
- Threatened, labor, before 37 completed weeks of gestation