Table 1. ICD-10 codes for cause of death to identify palliative care need.
Reprinted from Etkind et al. (2017) 12 under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
| ICD-10 code | Conditions | |
|---|---|---|
| Cancer | C00–C97 | Malignant neoplasms |
| Organ failure | I00–I52 (excl. I12 & I13)
J40–J47, J96 I12, I13, N17, N18, N28 K70–K77 |
Heart disease, 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 |