ICD10 and ICDCM

Vocabulary Users
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Is it ever appropriate to use an ICD10CM code outside the US? I have some ex-US datasets and I’m getting a few hits in ICD10CM that are not in ICD10. I’m assuming I should just stick to ICD10 in ex-US DBs - but figured I’d ask.

Some examples:
D47.4 - Osteomyelofibrosis O14.2 - HELLP syndrome Z41.8 - Encounter for other procedures for purposes other than remedying health state

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@ericaVoss:

Not sure I understand your question. ICD-10 is fully enclosed in ICD-10-CM. So, all those codes exist in both. But there are a lot of ICD-10-CM codes that don’t exist in ICD-10. Plus, since ICD-10-CM specifies the diagnoses, all those “Other” and “Not otherwise specified” concepts have a slightly different meaning.

But there are other country-specific ICD-10 codes. Germany has ICD-10-GM, for example.

What are you looking at?

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I think you have answered my question - let’s say I have D47.4 in a German database and I cannot find it in ICD10 I should not fall back to ICD10CM.