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.
Moving from the temperate Great Basin Desert we come to the last desert we will consider. This is also a temperate desert, although not everyone will classify it as such. This desert consists of the dry fringes of the grasslands of the Great Plains, as well as the interior of Washington and Oregon.