On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylego...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 > Correction: The table has ICD-10 diagnosis code descriptions! Now I just need them to create the same table for ICD-10 procedure codes. (I'm sure that will follow soon as they have the analagous table for ICD-9's.) Andrew
