Versions of ICD-10 codes

ellessenne / comorbidity

An R package for computing comorbidity scores.

https://ellessenne.github.io/comorbidity/

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Versions of ICD-10 codes #31

Closed sg-peytrignet closed 3 years ago

sg-peytrignet commented 3 years ago

Hi All,

Thank you for this excellent package. This is not a bug, just a question. Am I right in my understanding that the package currently identifies Elixhauser conditions based on the 2011 version of the ICD-10 codes? If the codes for something such as diabetes are now recorded with new codes, would this then prevent the comorbidity() function from identifying the condition?

Thanks

Sebastien

ellessenne commented 3 years ago

Hello, Sorry for the delayed response, this must have slipped through my e-mails and just noticed this now! Anyway, yeah, the default scores are based on the papers listed as references (e.g. the Quan et al. paper) - comorbidity() will only fail to identify new codes or codes that have changed between the ICD-10 revisions (which I am not sure of, I always assumed it was quite stable between minor revisions?).