This CodeSystem is not used here it may be used elsewhere (e.g. Background: Recently, van Walraven developed a weighted summary score (VW) based on the 30 comorbidities from the Elixhauser comorbidity system. This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets: HL7 International Clinical Interoperability CouncilĬomplete: All the concepts defined by the code system are included in the code system resource For example, the category #CHF (congestive heart failure) refers to the patient having a diagnosis that falls within the value set Elixhauser Comorbid Condition Value Set for Congestive Heart Failure.Ī set of codes representing the comorbidity categories originally defined by Elixhauser, and updated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (H-CUP). The comorbidity categories are associated with specific value sets. The Elixhauser comorbidity categories represented here and corresponding codes are defined by Elixhauser Comorbidity Software Refined for ICD-10-CM v2021.1. Since formal terminologies do not provide codes for individual Elixhauser categories, mCODE provides them.
