Table 1.

International Classification of Disease-10 codes used to estimate palliative care need [22]

Grouping	Code	Conditions included
Cancer	C00–C97	All deaths from malignant neoplasms
Organ failure	I00–I52 (excl. I12 & I13) J40–J47, J96 I12, I13, N17, N18, N28 K70–K77	Heart disease and heart failure Chronic lower respiratory disease, respiratory failure Reno-vascular disease, renal failure Liver disease
Dementia	F01, F03, G30, R54	Dementia, vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, senility
Other	G10, G12.2, G20, G23.1, G35, G90.3 I60–I69 B20–B24	Huntington’s disease, motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple sclerosis, multi system atrophy Haemorrhagic, ischaemic and unspecified stroke HIV