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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2024

Coding rules for uncertain and "ruled out" diagnoses in ICD-10 and ICD-11.

Oluseun O Atolagbe, Patrick S Romano, Danielle A Southern, Wachira Wongtanasarasin, William A Ghali

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 authors.

Oluseun O AtolagbeHealth Information Management Department, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Patrick S RomanoDepartments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA. psromano@ucdavis.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6749-3979
Danielle A SouthernCentre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Wachira WongtanasarasinDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
William A GhaliOffice of Vice President of Research, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

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AHRQ HHS R13 HS024891AHRQ HHS R13 HS027288AHRQ HHS R13HS027288
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11) has significantly improved the ability to navigate coding challenges beyond prior iterations of the ICD. Commonly encountered sources of complexity in clinical documentation include coding of uncertain and "ruled out" diagnoses. Assessing official international guidelines and rules, this paper documents extensive variation across countries in existing practices for coding and reporting unconfirmed and "ruled out" clinical concepts in ICD-10 (and modifications thereof). The design of ICD-11 is intended to mitigate these coding challenges by introducing postcoordination, expanding the range of codable clinical concepts, and offering clearer guidance in the ICD-11 Reference Guide. ICD-11 offers substantial progress towards more precise capture of uncertain and "ruled out" diagnoses, including international consensus on coding rules for these historically challenging clinical concepts. However, we identify the need for further clarification of the concepts of "provisional diagnosis" and "differential diagnosis."

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Clinical CodingInternational Classification of DiseasesHumansClassificationICD-11International Classification of DiseasesRuled outUncertain diagnoses

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PMCPMC11430383

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