Z37 ICD-10-CA category: Outcome of delivery
Z37 isn’t a code on its own. Choose one of the 50 codes beneath it, the one the documentation supports.
Official description
Z37Outcome of delivery
ICD-10-CA · Canada
Codes in Z37
Z37 isn’t a code on its own. Open the group that matches what the note documents.
Z37.0Single live birth (2 codes)Z37.1Single stillbirth (2 codes)Z37.2Twins, both liveborn (2 codes)Z37.3Twins, one liveborn and one stillborn (2 codes)Z37.4Twins, both stillborn (2 codes)Z37.5Other multiple births, all liveborn (12 codes)Z37.6Other multiple births, some liveborn (12 codes)Z37.7Other multiple births, all stillborn (12 codes)Z37.9Outcome of delivery, unspecified (4 codes)Notes for Z37
As CIHI prints them, with any note Z37 takes from the headings above it.
Note
- Use this category to describe a perfectly normal delivery (without complications). This category is also intended for use as an additional
- code to identify the outcome of delivery on the mother's record.
- This chapter should not be used for international comparison or for primary mortality coding.Categories Z00-Z99 are provided for occasions when circumstances other than a disease, injury or external cause classifiable to categories A00-Y89 are recorded as "diagnoses" or "problems". This can arise in two main ways:(a) When a person who may or may not be sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to receive limited care or service for a current condition, to donate an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination or to discuss a problem which is in itself not a disease or injury.(b) When some circumstance or problem is present which influences the person's health status but is not in itself a current illness or injury. Such factors may be elicited during population surveys, when the person may or may not be currently sick, or be recorded as an additional factor to be borne in mind when the person is receiving care for some illness or injury.From Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
Where Z37 sits
- 1ChapterChapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99)
- 2Block Z30-Z39Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction
- 3Category Z37Outcome of delivery
Source and release
- Data release
- ICD-10-CA · FY 2026–2027
- Effective date
- Apr 1, 2026
- Publisher
- CIHI
This page is built from the ICD-10-CA catalog that Vero Codes reads when it suggests codes: Canadian Institute for Health Information’s FY 2026–2027 release, imported from the publisher’s file and checked against it. The description, notes and structured data come from the same record.
Frequently asked questions
Is Z37 a valid ICD-10-CA code?
No. Z37 (Outcome of delivery) is a category heading in CIHI’s ICD-10-CA FY 2026–2027 release. It holds 50 codes; record the one the documentation supports.
Where is Z37 in ICD-10-CA?
Z37 sits under Z30-Z39 Persons encountering health services in circumstances related to reproduction, within Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-Z99).
What coding notes apply to Z37?
ICD-10-CA lists Note notes for Z37, including those from the headings it sits under. They are listed on this page with where each one comes from.
Which ICD-10-CA release does this page use?
It uses CIHI’s FY 2026–2027 release, in effect from Apr 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2027. It is a reference: confirm the code against the current list and the payer’s rules before you submit it.