The Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) for ICD-10 is a diagnosis categorization scheme that can be employed in many types of projects analyzing data on diagnoses. This tool is based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), a uniform and standardized coding system, which has been used in the U.S. for mortality reporting since 1999. The ICD-10's multitude of codes – more than 32,000 diagnosis codes in all – are collapsed into a smaller number of clinically meaningful categories (only 260 types) that are sometimes more useful for presenting descriptive statistics than are individual ICD-10-CM codes.
CCS ICD-10 categories can be employed in many types of projects analyzing data on diagnoses. For example, they can be used to:
CCS ICD-10 categories can be employed in many types of projects analyzing data on diagnoses. For example, they can be used to:
- Identify populations for disease-specific studies
- Gain a better understanding of the distribution of certain conditions across disease groupings
- Examine trends in mortality by broad diagnosis groupings.
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