ICD-10 coding method for naming diseases by human nametaking ophthalmology as an example
Zhang Rui1,Yang Fan2.
1.Department of Medical Records and Statistics, Nanchong Central Hospital, Nanchong 637000, China;
2.Nanchong Central Hospital, Second Clinical Medical College of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
Abstract：Many diseases in ophthalmology are named after people's names. These diseases are usually named after foreign ophthalmologists who reported the disease for the first time. Clinicians often use English names directly as the diagnosis of these diseases, such as Coats′ disease, Fuchs syndrome, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, Duane syndrome, etc. In order to search for the correct codes of these diseases, this paper explores the coding search methods of these ophthalmic diseases, and finds that their codes are H35.0, H20.8, H47.2 and H50.8, respectively. It is concluded that there are generally two methods of selecting leading words for disease coding named by human names: name and clinical manifestations. Choosing persons' names as leading words requires searching for the authoritative Chinese transliteration names of these foreign ophthalmologists in the literature, and using authoritative Chinese transliteration names as leading words to search for codes; choosing clinical manifestations as leading words requires a full understanding of the etiology, development, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of these diseases in the medical literature, to grasp the clinical manifestations of these diseases.
