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The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare has published the 2018 version of diagnosis codes classification (ICD-10-SE)
27 Apr 2018
On the 16th of April, 2018, the new classification of diagnosis codes (ICD-10-SE) was released by the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen). It is updated annually and typically published in three parts.
Seventeen new diagnosis codes were added in 2018:
- Pneumocystosis (B48.5)
- Idiopathic hypersomnia with long amount of sleep time (G41.1A)
- Idiopathic hypersomnia with small amount of sleep time (G47.1B)
- Other specified hypersomnia (including secondary hypersomnia) (G47.1W)
- Hypersomnia, unspecified (G47.1X)
- Narcolepsy type 1 (narcolepsy with cataplexy and/or pathologically low hypocretin value) (G47.4A)
- Narcolepsy type 2 (narcolepsy without cataplexy and with non-pathological or non-measured hypocretin value) (G47.4B)
- Other specified narcolepsy and cataplexy (including secondary narcolepsy) (G47.4W)
- Narcolepsy and cataplexy, unspecified (G47.4X)
- Kleine–Levin syndrome (G47.8A)
- Parasomnias (G47.8B)
- Sleep disorders (G47.8C)
- Other specific disturbance of sleep (G47.8W)
- Encephalopathy in disease classified elsewhere (G94.3*)
- Third degree perineal laceration during delivery (internal anal sphincter injuries only) (O72.F)
- Pulseless electrical activity, not classified elsewhere (R00.3)
- Latent tuberculosis (Z22.7)
Full diagnosis classification, list of changes and other relevant documents in Swedish are available in here:
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