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. 2012 Dec;27(12):4414-9.
doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfs461. Epub 2012 Nov 22.

New primary renal diagnosis codes for the ERA-EDTA

Gopalakrishnan Venkat-Raman  1 , Charles R V Tomson, Yongsheng Gao, Ronald Cornet, Benedicte Stengel, Carola Gronhagen-Riska, Chris Reid, Christian Jacquelinet, Elke Schaeffner, Els Boeschoten, Francesco Casino, Frederic Collart, Johan De Meester, Oscar Zurriaga, Reinhard Kramar, Kitty J Jager, Keith Simpson; ERA-EDTA Registry
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New primary renal diagnosis codes for the ERA-EDTA

Gopalakrishnan Venkat-Raman et al. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2012 Dec.

Abstract

The European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) Registry has produced a new set of primary renal diagnosis (PRD) codes that are intended for use by affiliated registries. It is designed specifically for use in renal centres and registries but is aligned with international coding standards supported by the WHO (International Classification of Diseases) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (SNOMED Clinical Terms). It is available as supplementary material to this paper and free on the internet for non-commercial, clinical, quality improvement and research use, and by agreement with the ERA-EDTA Registry for use by commercial organizations. Conversion between the old and the new PRD codes is possible. The new codes are very flexible and will be actively managed to keep them up-to-date and to ensure that renal medicine can remain at the forefront of the electronic revolution in medicine, epidemiology research and the use of decision support systems to improve the care of patients.

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