ICD-10 Codes for the Study of Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions in Administrative Databases.

ABSTRACT: Chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) are a set of painful chronic conditions characterized by high levels of co-occurrence. It has been hypothesized that COPCs co-occur in many cases because of common neurobiological vulnerabilities. In practice, most research on COPCs has focused upon a single index condition with little effort to assess comorbid painful conditions. This likely means that important phenotypic differences within a sample are obscured. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding system contains many diagnostic classifications that may be applied to individual COPCs, but there is currently no agreed upon set of codes for identifying and studying each of the COPCs. Here we seek to address this issue through three related projects 1) we first compile a set

SUBMITTER: Schrepf A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8177096 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan - Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature