HLTH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Electronic Health Record, World Health Organization, Bronchus
6 Feb 2018
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Need for standards: same (cid:498)language(cid:499) should be used to describe medical concepts. International classification of diseases (icd): published by the world health organization (who), used internationally, purpose is to compare morbidity and mortality data from different countries. Codes diseases, symptoms, social circumstances, external causes of injury or diseases, etc. Icd-10-cm (clinical modification) is the us version. Icd-11 is expected to be official in 2018. Core is the 3 alphanumeric character codes ranging from a00 to z99. Each of 21 chapters (topics) is assigned to a specific 3-character code range. E. g. , chapter i: infectious and parasitic diseases, a00-b99. Fourth numeric character after a decimal place indicates the sub-category. Icd-10 chapters: diseases and anything related to disease! Example icd-10 codes: c34: malignant (bad) neoplasm (tumor) of bronchus and lung. C34. 8: overlapping lesion of bronchus and lung. Diagnosis related group (drg): relates diagnosis to treatment cost. for older adults 65+) in the us. Designed to calculate reimbursement for medicare (us funded health care.
