Volume 4, Number 4—December 1998
Dispatch
Increasing Hospitalization and Death Possibly Due to Clostridium difficile Diarrheal Disease
Floyd Frost*
, Gunther F. Craun†, and Rebecca L. Calderon‡
, Gunther F. Craun†, and Rebecca L. Calderon‡Table 1
International Classification of Disease (ICD9)
| Categories | |
|---|---|
| Bacterial | |
| 001a | Cholera |
| 002a | Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers |
| 003a | Other salmonella infections |
| 004a | Shigellosis |
| 005a | Other food poisoning bacterial |
| 008a | Intestinal infections due to other organisms |
| 0080 | Escherichia coli |
| 0081 | Arizona group of paracolon bacilli |
| 0082 | Aerobacter aerogenes (Enterobacter) |
| 0083 | Proteus |
| 0084 | Other specified bacteria |
| 0085 | Bacterial enteritis (unspecified) |
| 041a | Bacterial infection in conditions classified elsewhere and of unspecified site |
| For hospital coding | |
| 00841 | Staphylococcus |
| 00842 | Pseudomonas |
| 00849 | Other |
| After 1992 | |
| 00843 | Campylobacter |
| 00844 | Yersinia enterocolitica |
| 00845 | Clostridium difficile |
| 00846 | Other anaerobes |
| 00847 | Other gram-negative bacteria |
| Viral | |
| 074a | Specified disease due to coxsackie virus |
| 045a | Acute poliomyelitis |
| 047a | Meningitis due to enterovirus |
| 048 | Other enterovirus diseases of central nervous system |
| 0086 | Enteritis due to specified virus |
| 0088 | Other viral organism not elsewhere classified |
| 0700a | Viral hepatitis A with hepatic coma |
| 0701a | Viral hepatitis A without mention of hepatic coma |
| Parasitic | |
| 006a | Amebiasis |
| 007a | Other protozoal intestinal diseases |
| 127a | Other intestinal helminthiases |
| 128 | Other and unspecified helminthiases |
| 129a | Intestinal parasitism, unspecified |
| Other | |
| 009a | Ill-defined intestinal infections |
a Diarrhea codes selected for study.
