The Incidence of Diagnosis of Munchausen Syndrome, Other Factitious Disorders, and Malingering
Table 3
List of 24 patients with F68.1 diagnosis from health institutions remembered by healthcare providers.
Gender
Age (yr) first-last contact
Number of admission/contacts
Number of institutions
Number of main/additional diagnosis
Corrected/adjusted diagnosis
F
21-26
17
2
17/0
F68.-Munchausen syndrome
F
35-39
74
7
6/68
F68.-Munchausen syndrome
M
25
10
1
0/10
F68.13
M
27-28
32
2
0/32
F68.13
F
22-24
12
4
6/6
F68.11
F
58
69
2
69/0
F68.11
M
35-36
36
2
6/30
F68.13
F
34
1
1
0/1
F68.11
F
22
4
1
0/1
F68.11
F
31-33
4
1
2/2
F68.13
F
17-18
12
1
12/0
F68.13
F
42
2
1
2/0
Munchausen by proxy
M
36
1
1
1/0
Z76.5
M
55
3
1
0/3
Z76.5
M
36
7
1
6/1
Z76.5
M
31
1
1
1/0
Z76.5
F
32-39
4
4
2/2
Z76.5
M
26
1
1
0/1
Z76.5
F
36-42
88
2
0/88
F71
F
51-52
34
1
0/34
F29.0
M
39-43
6
1
6/0
G20
K
83
1
1
1/0
F41.1
M
35
1
1
0/1
F29
F
52
1
1
1/0
F45.0
The corrected and/or adjusted diagnosis of the original F68.1 diagnosis code after the physicians or psychologists who made this diagnosis in the first place were contacted and given supplementary information about the diagnostic criteria and the 4 codes below the American 2018 ICD10-CM diagnosis code F68.1.
