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.
They are not areas of desert like the mojave, sonoran, and chihuahuan deserts. They are more similar to the great basin desert lands in northern Nevada and western Utah, and other neighboring areas on the Colorado plateau lke northwestern new mexico, northeast arizona, and eastern utah.