New primary renal diagnosis codes for the ERA-EDTA

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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. © 2012 The Author.

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Venkat-Raman, G., Tomson, C. R. V., Gao, Y., Cornet, R., Stengel, B., Gronhagen-Riska, C., … Simpson, K. (2012). New primary renal diagnosis codes for the ERA-EDTA. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 27(12), 4414–4419. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfs461

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