On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Steve Atkins <st...@blighty.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Andrew Gould wrote: > > Background: ICD-10 is a clinical coding system maintained by the World >> Health Organization. The system is used in most "advanced" countries. >> Hospitals in the USA must convert from ICD-9 to ICD-10 by 2013. >> >> Problem: I've been trying to find a table of ICD-10 codes to import into >> a database; but the only listings that I can find are in publicly available >> pdf files. I've tried to copy the text to text files, but the resulting >> layout is horrible -- it would take, literally, weeks or months of manual >> tweaking to parse. >> >> Does anyone have or know of an existing table of ICD-10 codes that is >> already "import friendly"? >> > > 10 seconds with google finds something in CSV format in a zip file > downloadable from the bottom of > http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/icd_10/ccs_icd_10.jsp - is that > any use to you? > > Cheers, > Steve > > Hmm.....AHRQ never came up in my googling. The table is almost what I need; but also has additional, useful information. In essence, AHRQ had a table that maps ICD-9 codes to their CCS categories. They have added a table that maps ICD-10 codes to those same categories. The mapping is *very* useful. The only thing missing are the ICD-10 code descriptions. Thanks for the help! Andrew
