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 |
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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) |