ICD-10 Classification in the Practice of Emergency Medical Teams: New Insights

Autor: Krzysztof M. Mitura, Jadwiga Snarska, Daniel Celiński, Dominik Maślach, Piotr K. Leszczyński, Aneta Binkowska, Leszek Szpakowski, Sławomir D. Szajda
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Emergency Medicine International, Vol 2024 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2090-2859
DOI: 10.1155/2024/8506561
Popis: The role of the emergency medical system is to provide assistance to every person in a state in the event of a sudden threat to health and life. Emergency medical teams (EMTs) are an important element of this system, making diagnoses based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). The study was aimed at analysing the causes of EMT intervention based on groups of diagnoses codified according to the ICD-10. The analysis was based on data from 116,278 EMT interventions in central-eastern Poland in 2017-2019. The research showed that EMT most often made diagnoses based on groups of ICD-10 codes: R00-R99-Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (39.11%); S00-T98-Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes (18.23%); and I00-I99-Diseases of the circulatory system (15.57%). The analysis of the obtained results showed statistically significant differences (p
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