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Juhra C, Schenkel J, Albert J, et al. In Case of Emergency - Are ICD-10 Codes Enough?. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;208:195-9
Juhra, C., Schenkel, J., Albert, J., Butz, N., & Born, J. (2015). In Case of Emergency - Are ICD-10 Codes Enough?. Studies in health technology and informatics, 208195-9.
Juhra, Christian, et al. "In Case of Emergency - Are ICD-10 Codes Enough?." Studies in health technology and informatics vol. 208 (2015): 195-9.
Juhra C, Schenkel J, Albert J, Butz N, Born J. In Case of Emergency - Are ICD-10 Codes Enough?. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;208:195-9. PMID: 25676972.
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Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;208:195-9.

In Case of Emergency - Are ICD-10 Codes Enough?.

Studies in health technology and informatics

Christian Juhra, Johannes Schenkel, Jürgen Albert, Norbert Butz, Judith Born

Affiliations

  1. University Hospital Münster, Department of Telemedicine.
  2. German Medical Association, Department of Telemedicine and Telematics.

PMID: 25676972

Abstract

In an acute emergency, the knowledge of the patient's medical history, allergies, implants, and medication can be crucial. ICD-10 code to document medical diagnoses alone often does not contain enough information. Our comparison of 388 documented diagnoses (ICD-10 codes as well as free text) showed that almost 20% of all coded ICD-10 codes contained less information than the documented free text. Thus, if using ICD-10 codes, free text diagnoses must be a necessary item in the upcoming German Medical Emergency DataSet.

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