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Table 5:

Examples for reasons that concepts identified by the age rule QA but ended up not requiring an age rule in the Map (false positives)

False positive category Concept flagged for age rule Default target code Index subentry triggering age rule QA Age specific target Result
Conflict with SNOMED CT modifier Senile dementia F03 : Unspecified dementia (inclusion: Senile dementia NOS) Dementia F03 - infantile, infantilis F84.3 F84.3 : Other childhood disintegrative disorder (Inclusion: Dementia infantilis) Age rules were not created
Multiple positions in alpha index Cyclical vomiting – psychogenic F50.8 : Other eating disorders (index entry: Cyclical vomiting - psychogenic F50.8) Disorder (of)
- eating
- - pica F50.8
- - - childhood F98.3
F98.3 : Pica of infancy and childhood
Questionable index entry Heart disease I51.9 : Heart disease, unspecified Disease, diseased
- heart (organic) I51.9
- - senile — see Myocarditis
I51.4 : Myocarditis, unspecified
Identical target as default Paralysis G83.9: Paralytic syndrome, unspecified Paralysis, paralytic G83.9 - senile G83.9 G83.9: Paralytic syndrome, unspecified (same as default code)