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Table 1 ICD Codes for Conditions leading to Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)Final List of Codes based on Feedback and Studies –Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation ABI Pilot Project

From: Direct cost associated with acquired brain injury in Ontario

I. Traumatic Causes

 

Diagnosis

ICD-10 Code and Description

1. Fracture of the skull

S02.0 Skull

 

S02.1 Base of skull

 

S02.9 Skull and facial bones

S02.7 Multiple fractures involving skull and facial bones

 

S02.89 Fractures of other unspecified skull and facial bones

2. Intracranial Injury excluding those with skull fracture

S06.0 Concussion

 

S06.2 Diffuse brain injury

 

S06.4 – Epidural Hemorrhage

 

S06.5 – Traumatic subdural hemorrhage

 

S06.6 – Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage

 

S06.8 – Other intracranial injuries

 

S06.1 – Traumatic cerebral edema

 

S06.3 – Focal brain injury

 

S06.9 – Intracranial injury unspecified

 

S09.7 – Multiple injuries of head

 

S09.8 – Other unspecified injuries of head

 

S09.9 – Unspecified injury of head

3. Other causes including late effects of injuries poisonings toxic effects & other external causes

T90.2 – Sequelae of fracture of skull and facial bones

 

T90.5 – Sequelae of intracranial injury

 

T90.8 - Sequelae of other specified injuries of head

 

T90.9 – Sequelae of unspecified injury of head

 

T96 – Sequelae of poisoning by drugs medicaments and biological substances

 

T97 – Sequelae of toxic effects of substances chiefly nonmedicinal as to source

 

T98.2 – Sequelae of certain early complications of trauma

II. Non Traumatic Causes

 

Diagnosis

ICD-10 Code and Description

1. Toxic effects of substances chiefly non-medical as to source

T51– Toxic effect of alcohol

 

T56 – Toxic effect of metals

 

T58– Toxic effect of carbon monoxide

2. Complications of surgical & medical care not elsewhere classified

G93.8 Other specified disorders of the brain (including post-radiation encephalopathy)

3. Anoxia

G93.1– Anoxic brain damage (includes all causes of anoxia except those occurring following abortions ectopic pregnancy labour & delivery & newborn)

 

T75.1– Drowning and nonfatal submersion

 

T71– Asphyxiation suffocation (by strangulation)

4. Vascular insults

I62.0 – Subdural hemorrhage

(Aneurysm and vascular malformations)

I62.9 – Unspecified intracranial hemorrhage

RVL Needs clarification

 

Aneurysm I77.0

 

Malformation Q28.0 –Q28.9

 

Traumatic aneurysm T14.5

 

5. Brain Tumours

C71 – Malignant neoplasm of brain

 

C79.3 – Secondary malignant neoplasm of brain and cerebral meninges

 

D33.0-D33.3 – Benign neoplasm of brain and other parts of central nervous system

 

D32.0 – Benign neoplasm of cerebral meninges

 

D43 – Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of brain and central nervous system

 

C70 – Malignant neoplasm of brain

 

D43.2 – Neoplasm of brain unspecified

 

D42.0 - Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of cerebral meninges

6. Encephalitis

A81.1– Subacute sclerosing encephalitis

 

B00.4 – Herpesviral meningoencephalitis

 

B05.0 – Postmeasles encephalitis

 

A83.0 – Japanese encephalitis

 

A83.2 – Eastern equine encephalitis

 

A86.0 – Unspecified viral encephalitis

 

G04.0 – Acute Disseminated encephalitis

 

G04.8 – Other encephalitis myelitis and encephalomyelitis

 

G04.9 – Encephalitis myelitis and encephalomyelitis unspecified

 

B01.1 – Varicella encephalitis

 

B02.0 – Zoster encephalitis

 

G05. – Encephalitis myelitis and encephalomyelitis in diseases classified elsewhere

7. Metabolic Encephalopathies

E10.0 (Type I) E11.0 (Type II)

 

E13.0 – Other specified diabetes mellitus with coma

 

E14.0 – Unspecified diabetes mellitus with coma

 

E15 – Nondiabetic hypoglycaemic coma

 

F07.2 – post concussion syndrome

8. Meningitis

G06.0 – intracranial abscess and granuloma

 

G06.1 – Intraspinal abscess and granuloma G06.2 – Extradural and subdural abscess unspecified

 

G93.0 – Cerebral cysts

 

A87 – Viral meningitis

 

B01.0 – Varicella meningitis

 

B37.5 – Candidal meningitis

 

G00 – Bacterial meningitis not elsewhere classified

 

G01* – Meningitis in bacterial diseases classified elsewhere

 

G02* – Meningitis in other infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere

 

G03. – Meningitis due to other and unspecified causes