ICD-10 GM Helper

A Node.js package for quickly finding the ICD-10 code of a diagnosis.

About this project

The ICD-10 GM is the German modification of the 10th revision of the international statistical classification of diseases and related health problems. This Node.js helper program was written for a german web app for managing patients, where it is important to find the ICD-10 code for a diagnosis. This package is to be implemented in the backend due to issues parsing the file in the browser.

Usage

Get all diagnoses

Import the package, then you can call the getAllDiagnosisCodes method to receive all the diagnoses codes. See example below:

import { getAllDiagnosisCodes } from 'icd10-gm';

getAllDiagnosisCodes().then((data) => {
    console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
    console.log(error);
});

The output structure is identical to the one shown here.

Get diagnosis code from diagnosis name

Import the package, then you can call the getICDCodeByDiagnosisName(diagnosisName) method, which takes a diagnosis (or partial diagnosis) name as the parameter and returns a promise of the possible matches as an object (with the keys name and ICDCode). See example below:

import { getICDCodeByDiagnosisName } from 'icd10-gm';

getICDCodeByDiagnosisName('hypertonie').then(data => {
    console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
    console.log(error)
});

To receive the following output:

[
  { name: 'Essentielle (primäre) Hypertonie', ICDCode: 'I10' },
  { name: 'Sekundäre Hypertonie', ICDCode: 'I15' },
  {
    name: 'Vorher bestehende Hypertonie, die Schwangerschaft, Geburt und Wochenbett kompliziert',
    ICDCode: 'O10'
  },
  {
    name: 'Chronische Hypertonie mit aufgepfropfter Präeklampsie',
    ICDCode: 'O11'
  },
  {
    name: 'Gestationsödeme und Gestationsproteinurie [schwangerschaftsinduziert] ohne Hypertonie',
    ICDCode: 'O12'
  },
  {
    name: 'Gestationshypertonie [schwangerschaftsinduzierte Hypertonie]',
    ICDCode: 'O13'
  },
  {
    name: 'Nicht näher bezeichnete Hypertonie der Mutter',
    ICDCode: 'O16'
  }
]

Available features

Currently, the only available features are getting the ICD code by providing a diagnosis name or getting all the diagnoses. The classification codes contain subclasses (e.g. E10.01 is a subclass of E10). For the purpose of our current app, only the main classes are needed with codes that contain three characters (e.g. E10 for Diabetes mellitus or I10 for Essentielle (primäre) Hypertonie). Further features may be added as needed.

Copyright

The CSV data used in this module was taken from the Download center of Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices. The codes and other data included in the downloaded data were not altered in any way, and this package is intended for non-commercial use.