I have a question. There is a lot of info in the ICD-9-CM coding documents that isn't represented by simple text. It would seem that an XML representation of the codes with the exclusions, notes, etc. would be more generally useful. Flatting the data to the number and the name seems to remove some, if not a lot of, information.
Comments?
Sure, an XML representation which preserved the comments, scope notes etc would be ideal. Even better would be an XML representation which incorporated all the revisions (which seem to be annual in the US) into the one document.
Howver, for our purposes we were just looking for a quick way to label US ICD-9-CM codes for the purposes of some demo code, since the US National Hospital Discharge Survey data from NCHS is a convenient, publicly available dataset.
The ICD clinical variants (e.g. ICD-9-CM as opposed to ICD-9) are country specific eg we use ICD-10-AM (where AM=Australian modification) for clinical coding, but ICD-10 (as maintained by WHO) for deaths.
Nevertheless, a single international XML standard for representing ICD codes would be great.
Tim C
------------Original Message------------ From: Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Openhealth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, Nov-28-2004 0:23 AM Subject: Free US ICD-9-CM as plain text?
Does anyone know where a set of US ICD-9-CM codes and descriptions as plain text i.e. in a format which can be imported into databse - can be
obatined at no cost? The data do not have to be re-distributable, just available on teh Internet for free. I have been able to find a free set
of US ICD-9-CM files in RTF (Rich Text Format) format provided by the NCHS (National center for health Statistics), but they are laid out for
printing, and would need a lot of error-prone parsing to render them as
a database file. Various companies offer ASCII-format ICD-9-CM files, but only for a fee. Note that I am looking for ICD-9-CM, not ICD-9.
Tim C
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