tools for working with ICD-9 codes, and finding comorbidities
Description
This package allows accurate manipulation, validation and
comparison of ICD-9-CM (clinical modification) codes. Although ICD-9 codes
appear numeric, this is not the case, since trailing zeroes, and a mixture
of decimal and non-decimal "short" format codes exist. Tools to map ICD-9
codes to co-morbidities are also provided, with mappings from Quan (Deyo
and Elixhauser versions), Elixhauser and AHRQ included.