At 02:12 PM 08/24/2000, Tim CHURCHES wrote: >Klaus Lemke wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:05:58 -0400 >> From: Klaus W Lemke <klemke@JHSPH.EDU> >> Subject: Re: IDC-9 mortality codes >> >> At 03:58 PM 08/22/2000, Erjan Kurbanov wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >I wonder if anyone can direct me to importable list of ICD-9 mortality >> >codes. I heard that there are 3 digit list of them out there somewhere... >> >> Erjan: >> >> You can find an ICD-9-CM file at http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/pufiles.htm >> >> Klaus Lemke >> Health Services Research and Development Center >> Johns Hopkins University > >Note that ICD-9-CM codes (any national version) at the 4 digit level are **NOT** identical >to the ICD-9 codes as published by WHO. Almost all national statistical agencies >used (or still use) WHO ICD-9 codes for mortality statistics. ICD-9-CM and ICD-9 are >identical at the 3 digit level, however (at least AFAIK). > >I always refer to the hard copy official WHO ICD-9 books when using mortality data - I have >been caught out too many times by assuming that the ICD-9 code and the first 4 digits >of the ICD-9-CM code mean the same thing - they don't, at least not always.

Good point (from someone down under <g>) - remember, the 3-digit's, for the most part, define the disease etiology and/or body organs/system.

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