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International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification 3rd edition

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termClassification Scheme
Synonymous names:Help on this termICD-10-AM 3rd edn
METEOR identifier:Help on this term270546
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004
Definition:Help on this term

The National Centre for Classification in Health classification for diseases, related health problems and procedures

Classification structure:Help on this term

ICD-10-AM 3rd edn is composed of 5 volumes:
1. Tabular List of Diseases. The tabular list of diseases contains the disease classification itself at the three, four and five character levels. Two appendices are specified: Morphology of neoplasms; and Special tabulation lists for mortality and morbidity.
2. Alphabetic Index of Diseases. The index to diseases contains many diagnostic terms which do not appear in Volume 1.
3. Tabular List of Procedures (ACHI). The tabular list of procedures contains the procedure classification itself. Two appendices are specified: Mapping table; and ACHI codes listed in numerical order.
4. Alphabetic Index of Procedures (ACHI). The index of procedures contains many procedure terms which do not appear in Volume 3.
5. Australian Coding Standards. The Australian Coding Standards contains the national standards developed by the NCCH which provide guidance in the application of ICD-10-AM codes.

 

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Origin:Help on this term

NCCH (National Centre for Classification in Health) 2002. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (3rd edn). Sydney: NCCH, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney

Revision status:Help on this term

ICD-10-AM 3rd edn supersedes the second edition of ICD-10-AM. ICD-10-AM was developed by the National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH). During the development, the NCCH was advised by members of the NCCH Coding Standards Advisory Committee and the Clinical Classification and Coding Groups, consisting of expert clinical coders and clinicians nominated by the Australian Casemix Clinical Committee.

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Has been superseded by International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification 4th edition
  • Health, Superseded 07/12/2005
Value Domains based on this classification scheme:Help on this term

External cause code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

Pregnancy/childbirth and puerperium code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

Activity type code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANNNN

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

Procedure code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) NNNNN-NN

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

Neonatal morbidity code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

Primary site of cancer code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

Diagnosis code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

Congenital malformations code (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

Place of occurrence (ICD-10-AM 3rd edn) ANN{.N[N]}

  • Health, Superseded 28/06/2004

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