Typically, the primary diagnosis and the principal diagnosis are the same diagnosis, but this is not necessarily always so. Principal diagnosis is defined as the condition, after study, which occasioned the admission to the hospital, according to theICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting.
UTC -8/-7, UTC -7/-6. Nevada is an arid state of the USA, lying between California and Utah. Most of the state is within the Great Basin, but parts of the northeast drain into the Snake River and the the southern portion is within the Mojave desert and the Colorado river drainage.
This is the largest desert in the US. It is a cold desert bordered by the Sierra Nevadas on the West and the Rockies on the East, the Columbia Plateau to the north and the Mojave and Sonoran deserts to the south. It covers most of Nevada and about half of Utah as well as parts of California, Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming.