International Classification of Diseases

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A system of categories to which morbid entries are assigned according to established criteria. Included is the entire range of conditions in a manageable number of categories, grouped to facilitate mortality reporting. It is produced by the World Health Organization (From ICD-10, p1). The Clinical Modifications, produced by the UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, are larger extensions used for morbidity and general epidemiological purposes, primarily in the U.S.

Descriptor ID	D038801
MeSH Number(s)	L01.453.245.945.400
Concept/Terms	International Classification of Diseases International Classification of Diseases International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ICD-9-CM ICD-9-CM ICD-10-CM ICD-10-CM ICD-9 ICD-9 ICD Codes ICD Codes Code, ICD Codes, ICD ICD Code International Classification of Disease Codes ICD-10 ICD-10

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Information Science [L]
Information Science [L01]
Information Services [L01.453]
Documentation [L01.453.245]
Vocabulary, Controlled [L01.453.245.945]
International Classification of Diseases [L01.453.245.945.400]

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Bar chart showing 40 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2005	0	1	1
2006	1	0	1
2007	0	2	2
2008	0	1	1
2010	1	3	4
2011	1	3	4
2012	0	2	2
2013	0	4	4
2014	1	3	4
2015	2	2	4
2016	0	1	1
2017	1	1	2
2018	1	1	2
2020	0	1	1
2021	4	1	5
2023	0	1	1
2025	0	1	1

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Weiss SL. Invited commentary: raising a high-pressure alarm about pediatric hypertension. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 06 03; 194(6):1496-1498.

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Bates BA, Akhabue E, Nahass MM, Mukherjee A, Hiltner E, Rock J, Wilton B, Mittal G, Visaria A, Rua M, Gandhi P, Dave CV, Setoguchi S. Validity of International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 Diagnosis Codes for Identification of Acute Heart Failure Hospitalization and Heart Failure with Reduced Versus Preserved Ejection Fraction in a National Medicare Sample. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2023 02; 16(2):e009078.

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Schaefer JW, Riley JM, Li M, Cheney-Peters DR, Venkataraman CM, Li CJ, Smaltz CM, Bradley CG, Lee CY, Fitzpatrick DM, Ney DB, Zaret DS, Chalikonda DM, Mairose JD, Chauhan K, Szot MV, Jones RB, Bashir-Hamidu R, Mitsuhashi S, Kubey AA. Comparing reliability of ICD-10-based COVID-19 comorbidity data to manual chart review, a retrospective cross-sectional study. J Med Virol. 2022 Apr; 94(4):1550-1557.

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Apfeld JC, Crichton KG, Minneci PC, Puls HT, Cooper JN. Identification of physical abuse-related hospitalizations in young children: Impact of the transition to ICD-10-CM coding. Child Abuse Negl. 2021 08; 118:105159.

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Lo Re V, Carbonari DM, Jacob J, Short WR, Leonard CE, Lyons JG, Kennedy A, Damon J, Haug N, Zhou EH, Graham DJ, McMahill-Walraven CN, Parlett LE, Nair V, Selvan M, Zhou Y, Pocobelli G, Maro JC, Nguyen MD. Validity of ICD-10-CM diagnoses to identify hospitalizations for serious infections among patients treated with biologic therapies. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2021 07; 30(7):899-909.

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Gwarzo IH, Perez-Patron M, Xu X, Radcliff T, Horney J. Traumatic Brain Injury Related Hospitalizations: Factors Associated with In-hospital Mortality among Elderly Patients Hospitalized with a TBI. Brain Inj. 2021 04 16; 35(5):554-562.

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Stefanopoulos S, Parsikia A, Kaissieh D, Sutton JM, Ortiz J. A Limitation of Administrative Datasets: Kidney Transplant Recipients Had Double the Incidence of Benign Pathology After Pancreatectomy. Pancreas. 2021 03 01; 50(3):e32-e33.

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Cortese MM, Kambhampati AK, Schuster JE, Alhinai Z, Nelson GR, Guzman Perez-Carrillo GJ, Vossough A, Smit MA, McKinstry RC, Zinkus T, Moore KR, Rogg JM, Candee MS, Sejvar JJ, Hopkins SE. A ten-year retrospective evaluation of acute flaccid myelitis at 5 pediatric centers in the United States, 2005-2014. PLoS One. 2020; 15(2):e0228671.

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Arianpour K, Forman SN, Karabon P, Thottam PJ. Pediatric acquired subglottic stenosis: Associated costs and comorbidities of 7,981 hospitalizations. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2019 Feb; 117:51-56.

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Shelton SK, Chukwulebe SB, Gaieski DF, Abella BS, Carr BG, Perman SM. Validation of an ICD code for accurately identifying emergency department patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2018 04; 125:8-11.

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