Table of contents

  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
    • Aim
    • Background of ICD-10-AM
    • Rationale for changes to ICD-10-AM
    • Overview of project method
    • Status
  • 2 Methods
    • Sources for potential changes
    • Survey of injury surveillance personnel
  • 3 Proposed changes
    • Summary of proposed changes
    • Chapter XIX—Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)
    • Chapter XX
  • 4 References
  • 5 Appendices
    • Appendix A1: General observations relating to patterns of use of existing coding categories
    • Appendix A2: General observations relating to comparisons with the ICD-based Injury Severity Score (ICISS)
    • Appendix A3: Summary of potential changes as indicated by other injury surveillance personnel
    • Appendix A4: General observations relating to comparisons with the ICD-10-CM
    • Appendix A5: General observations relating to comparisons with the ICECI
    • Appendix A6: Feedback from other injury surveillance personnel
    • Appendix A7: Suggested layout for codes S27, S36 and S37
    • Appendix A8: Organ Injury Scales
    • Appendix A9: Look-up table for sixth character sub-categories for various bodily organs
    • Appendix A10: Proposed changes not included in final submission