Thanks Jannink for referring to the WHO ICD-10 website. Currently I am
working on coding some causes of deaths. The website will be very useful for
me, specially its search option.
Kazi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jannik Helweg-Larsen" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:09 PM
Subject: st: ICD10 function?
> Last year in December(http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-
> 12/msg00016.html) there was a request for a ICD10 function similar to the
ICD9
> function, to which Ken Higbee answered:
>
> ".....Our problem is that we cannot find an official source for the
> mapping of codes into short phrases and we are unsure of how to
> proceed with what information we can find.
>
> ICD-10 is produced by WHO. At their web site, they say
>
> "... a CD-ROM has been in preparation for some time ... has
> suffered another technical setback with the software ...
> publication date has been indefinitely postponed. ... we do
> not have an electronic version of the ICD-10 to offer our
> customers." -- http://www.who.int/whosis/icd10/electron.htm
>
> That CD-ROM would, of course, be what would be most useful for
> us.
>
> So we have looked around the web and have run into two
> difficulties:
>
> 1. There seems to be no official source for all the codes
> other than the printed book
>
> 2. There is possibly enough information to be found on the
> web to assemble something, but there appear to be
> copyright issues.
> ...... "
>
>
> Noticing that a online version of ICD10 is now available from WHO:
> http://www3.who.int/icd/vol1htm2003/fr-icd.htm-
> - I was wondering if Stata or anyone else will be producing a ICD10
function?
>
> Jannik Helweg-Larsen
> Epidemiafdeling M
> Rigshospitalet
> Denmark
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> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>
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