The effectiveness of ICD-10-CM in capturing public health diseases

This research study examined the usefulness of the ICD-10-CM system in capturing public health diseases (reportable diseases or the nationally notifiable infectious diseases, leading causes of death, and morbidity/mortality related to terrorism), when compared to ICD-9-CM.1-3 It also examined agreem...

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Published in:Perspectives in health information management 2007-06, Vol.4, p.6-6
Main Authors: Watzlaf, Valerie J M, Garvin, Jennifer Hornung, Moeini, Sohrab, Anania-Firouzan, Patricia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioterrorism - classification
Cause of Death
Communicable Diseases - classification
Communicable Diseases - diagnosis
Communicable Diseases - epidemiology
Disease Notification
Humans
International Classification of Diseases - organization & administration
International Classification of Diseases - statistics & numerical data
International Classification of Diseases - trends
Public Health - classification
Reproducibility of Results
United States
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Summary:This research study examined the usefulness of the ICD-10-CM system in capturing public health diseases (reportable diseases or the nationally notifiable infectious diseases, leading causes of death, and morbidity/mortality related to terrorism), when compared to ICD-9-CM.1-3 It also examined agreement levels of coders when coding public health diseases in both ICD-10-CM and ICD-9-CM. Overall results demonstrate that ICD-10-CM is more specific and fully captures more of the public health diseases examined than ICD-9-CM. In the analysis of all the public health diseases, such as reportable diseases (p
ISSN:1559-4122