Accessing ICD10 Codes for R05
I am trying to access the ICD10 code R05 from the First Occurrence Data using the Cohort Browser. However, the available ICD codes when I search from them only go up through the end of the letter Q. Can someone please advise me as to how to pull the ICD10 code R05 from the first occurrence data using python instead?
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I have discovered the answer to my own question in case anyone in the future stumbles upon this. If you go to the document provided in this link (Resource 593), you will see the below information that answers the question:
“The whole ICD10 classification system consists of around 18,000 codes across 22 chapters. Chapters contain codes for related conditions and sub-types such as disorders of the circulatory (chapter IX) or respiratory systems (chapter X). The full code look-up for the latest release (version 5) can be downloaded from TRUD (Technology Reference Data Update Distribution, NHS Digital). 4 ICD10 chapters XVIII to XXII (codes beginning R00 to Z99) were excluded as they encompass entities that are broader (e.g. symptoms, injury, external causes of morbidity, factors influencing health status) than the diagnostic health outcomes found in chapters I to XVII. As noted previously, codes for cancer (chapter II - codes beginning C00 to D48) are also excluded, as the most reliable source of this information is already available in UK Biobank via the cancer register data.5 Thus, of the available 2,000 unique 3-character ICD10 codes, around 1,200 were used as the ‘spine’ for this set of health outcomes.”
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