Table 1 Causes of death (ICD-10 codes) indicating a potential need for palliative care (Etkind et al., 2017)
Cause of death | ICD-10 codes |
|---|---|
Cancer | C00-C97 |
Heart disease and heart failure | I00-I52 (excl. I12 and I13) |
Chronic lower respiratory disease, respiratory failure | J40-J47, J96 |
Haemorrhagic, ischaemic and unspecified stroke | I60-I69 |
Reno-vascular disease, renal failure | I12, I13, N17, N18, N28 |
Liver disease | K70-K77 |
Dementia, vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, senility | F01, F03, G30, R54 |
Neurodegenerative disease (Huntington’s disease, motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple sclerosis, multi system atrophy) | G10, G12.2, G20, G23.1, G35, G90.3 |
HIV | B20-B24 |