BACKGROUND Administrative data is a useful tool for research and quality improvement; however, validity of research findings based on these data depends on their reliability. Diagnoses assigned by physicians are subsequently converted by nosologists to ICD-10 codes (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision). Several groups have reported ICD...

In 2015 ICD-10-PCS replaced ICD-9-CM for coding medical procedures in the U.S. We explored two methods to automatically map SNOMED CT surgical procedures to ICD-10-PCS. First, we used MetaMap to lexically map ICD-10-PCS index terms to SNOMED CT. Second, we made use of the axial structure of ICD-10-PCS and aligned them to defining attributes in SNOMED CT. Lexical mapping produced 45% of correct ...

To develop an automated international classification of diseases (ICD) coding tool using natural language processing (NLP) and discharge summary texts from Thailand. The development phase included 15,329 summaries Ramathibodi Hospital January 2015 to December 2020. external validation Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III) data. Three algorithms were developed: naïve Bayes ...

The International Classification of Diseases, 10 revision (ICD-10), is now just around the corner with its implementation date set for October 1, 2014. ICD-10 is not part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is owned by the World Health Organization, and its primary purpose historically has been for vital statistics and epidemiological data. ICD was first published in 1900, and ICD-9 was introd...

OBJECTIVE Identifying infant deaths with common underlying causes and potential intervention points is critical to infant mortality surveillance and the development of prevention strategies. We constructed an International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision (ICD-10) parallel to the Dollfus cause-of-death classification scheme first published in 1990, which organized infant deaths by etiol...