Where an ABS assigned external cause ICD-10 code was present (n=6,214), 4,397 (70.8%) matched exactly with the independently assigned ICD-10 code. Coding disparity primarily related to differences in assignment of intent and specificity. However, in a small number of deaths (n=49, 0.8%)...
International form of medical certificate of cause of death (WHO, ICD-10, 1993) Full size image The WHO defines the underlying cause of death as “the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death or the circumstances of the accident or violence which...
The information contained was as follows: handling year, notified prefectures and municipalities, public health center identification number, identification number of cases, name, sex, birth date, death date, death place, ICD-10 code of COD, presence/absence of autopsy, remarks of the autopsy when...
PRF according to the ME was defined by the ICD-10 code listed as the primary cause of death based on standard reporting from the Department of Vital Statistics; if the ICD-10 code was directly related to poisoning (see Table 1), then the death was identified as PRF according to the ME...
of the department of surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote. “The ICD-10 coding system has limited ability to capture most types of medical error. … Moving away from a requirement that only reasons for death with an ICD...
For injury deaths, the underlying cause of death is defined as the circumstances leading to the injury. When this information is missing, the ICD-10 code X59 (Exposure to unspecified factor) is used. Lack of knowledge of factors causing injuries reduces
Pneumonia-specific death was defined by ICD-10 code J12–J18. Incident pneumonia included pneumonia-specific death and/or any pneumonia diagnosis made after treatment initiation dates (identified by ICD-9 code 480–486), whichever occurred first. For patients with multiple diagnoses of pneumonia, ...
Among the deaths classified according to the ICD-10 code, cases which might correspond to SCD were extracted. Our methodology is based on previous studies with all its inherent limitations [5, 17, 20]. The first group included the cases classified as “diseases of the cardiovascular system” ...
information to assign a more specific ICD–10 code (T40.0–T40.4) (3,4). Among deaths with an underlying cause of drug overdose, the percentage with at least one drug or drug class specified is defined as that with at least one ICD–10 multiple cause-of-death code in the range T36–...
doi:10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00063.xSangeeta LambaLamba, S. (2008). Should natural death be a "Billable" ICD-9 Code? Academic Emergency Medicine, 15(3), 285-286.