ICD-11 classes
21 Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere...
Mental or behavioural symptoms, signs or clinical findings
MB20 — Symptoms, signs or clinical findings involving consciousness
MB20.2 — Clouding of consciousness
ICD-11 MB20.2 — Clouding of consciousness
An impairment in the clarity of consciousness characterised by impaired ability to comprehend aspects of the environment or the self in relation to the environment, inattention, and abnormalities in thought processes, comprehension. It is typically accompanied by subjective experience of mental clouding described as feeling ‘foggy’. Clouding of consciousness is a common form of cognitive disturbance in Delirium, but it is not synonymous with Delirium because Delirium includes additional diagnostic requirements.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
It excludes 1 item.
- Delirium (6D70)
It has no clarifying diagnoses.