Table 3.
Diagnostic codes (SNOMED CT-AU text) comprising at least 1% of all diagnoses for each body region
| Number (%) of patients labelled with each diagnostic code by body region | |
|---|---|
| Low back | |
| Backache | 50,284 (46.2) |
| Low back pain | 12,722 (11.7) |
| Intervertebral disc disorder | 6,946 (6.4) |
| Degeneration of intervertebral disc | 6,154 (5.7) |
| Chronic back pain | 5,559 (5.1) |
| Spinal stenosis | 3,022 (2.8) |
| Scoliosis deformity of spine | 2,368 (2.2) |
| Fracture of vertebral column | 2,237 (2.1) |
| Osteoarthritis of lumbar spine | 2,054 (1.9) |
| Laminectomy | 1,781 (1.6) |
| Lumbosacral spondylosis | 1,439 (1.3) |
| Injury of back | 1,185 (1.1) |
| Neck | |
| Neck pain | 7,792 (41.2) |
| Cervical spine degeneration | 3,806 (20.1) |
| Cervical radiculopathy | 2,421 (12.8) |
| Cervicogenic headache | 925 (4.9) |
| Cervical disc disorder | 755 (4.0) |
| Torticollis | 603 (3.2) |
| Whiplash injury to neck | 507 (2.7) |
| Cervico-occipital neuralgia | 250 (1.3) |
| Stiff neck | 249 (1.3) |
| Injury of cervical spine | 225 (1.2) |
| Shoulder | |
| Shoulder pain | 11,854 (32.1) |
| Subacromial bursitis | 6,236 (16.9) |
| Rotator cuff syndrome | 4,355 (11.8) |
| Adhesive capsulitis | 2,313 (6.3) |
| Injury of shoulder region | 1,873 (4.8) |
| Supraspinatus tear | 1,411 (3.8) |
| Capsulitis | 1,313 (3.6) |
| Supraspinatus tendinitis | 1,053 (2.9) |
| Impingement syndrome of shoulder region | 880 (2.4) |
| Inflammation of rotator cuff tendon | 699 (1.9) |
| Total shoulder replacement | 639 (1.7) |
| Osteoarthritis of shoulder | 596 (1.6) |
| Arthroscopy of shoulder | 569 (1.5) |
| Subdeltoid bursitis | 566 (1.5) |
| Repair of musculotendinous cuff of shoulder | 553 (1.5) |
| Rupture of tendon of biceps | 385 (1.0) |
| Knee | |
| Knee pain | 12,077 (26.4) |
| Total knee replacement | 8,699 (19.0) |
| Osteoarthritis of knee | 8,683 (19.0) |
| Arthroscopy of knee | 2,870 (6.3) |
| Injury of knee | 2,201 (4.8) |
| Synovial cyst of popliteal space | 2,000 (4.4) |
| Finding of tear meniscus | 1,895 (4.1) |
| Tear of meniscus of knee | 782 (1.7) |
| Acute meniscal tear, medial | 719 (1.6) |
| Prepatellar bursitis | 700 (1.5) |
| Tear of medial meniscus of knee | 685 (1.5) |
| Knee joint effusion | 550 (1.2) |
| Chondromalacia of patella | 514 (1.1) |