Re: Off Topic: ICD-10 codes in a database table?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)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