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From Andrew Gould
Subject Re: Off Topic: ICD-10 codes in a database table?
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In response to Re: Off Topic: ICD-10 codes in a database table?  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
Andrew Gould wrote:
> Problem:  I've been trying to find a table of ICD-10 codes to import into a
> database; but the only listings that I can find are in publicly available
> pdf files.  I've tried to copy the text to text files, but the resulting
> layout is horrible -- it would take, literally, weeks or months of manual
> tweaking to parse.

http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/

That looks like somewhere between half and a full day's work with a bit
of perl.

--
 Richard Huxton
 Archonet Ltd

I hadn't considered web scraping; but this is the cleanest option I've seen.

Thanks,

Andrew

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