From healthmaps@home.com Thu Dec 7 16:26:20 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA398860 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:26:18 -0800 Received: from femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.85]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA06602 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:26:17 -0800 Received: from c501552d ([24.19.225.248]) by femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001208002617.SUIW21363.femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com@c501552d> for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:26:17 -0800 From: "Health Maps" To: "WAPHGIS" Subject: WAPHGIS: ICD9 and ICD10 codes Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:26:16 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_004F_01C0606A.6C411BA0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C0606A.6C411BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If you work with vital stat data as I do then you are in the throes of the change from ICD9 to ICD10 codes. There is no straightforward conversion for many changes. How to deal with portraying trend data will be a challenge. ICD9 and ICD10 info on http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm Good links and a tidbit on the word "throes" The noun throe, meaning “a severe pang or spasm of pain,” was at first used mainly for such physical events as childbirth or dying. [Mid-1800s] I guess the coding change is not that bad ... Richard Hoskins healthmaps@home.com GMT -8 To subscribe to WAPHGIS, Washington Public Health GIS listserve, send a message to listproc@u.washington.edu with the request "subscribe waphgis" followed by your name in the body of the message, like so: subscribe waphgis Your Name ------=_NextPart_000_004F_01C0606A.6C411BA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
If you = work with=20 vital stat data as I do then you are in the throes of the change from = ICD9 to=20 ICD10 codes. There is no straightforward conversion for many changes. = How to=20 deal with portraying trend data will be a challenge. =
 
ICD9 = and ICD10 info=20 on http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.ht= m
 
Good = links=20
 
and a = tidbit on the=20 word "throes"
 
The noun throe, meaning = “a severe=20 pang or spasm of pain,” was at first used mainly for such physical = events as=20 childbirth or dying. [Mid-1800s]
 
I = guess the coding=20 change is not that bad ...
 
Richard Hoskins
healthmaps@home.com
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