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Table 1 Health conditions are included in the estimate of the population requiring palliative care

From: Estimation of the demand for palliative care in non-oncologic patients in Chile

The proposed list of diseases

CD-10 Code

Health condition

(i) The list of diseases proposed by Murtagh et al., considering the groups of diseases analyzed by the Lancet Commission.

B20-B24, F01-F04, G10, G12, G20-G26, G30, G35-G37, G90.3, I00-I52, I60-I69, J06, J09, J10-J18, J20 -J22, J40-J47, J60-J65, J96, K70-K77, N17-N19, N28, R54, M00-M97

Diseases caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Organic mental disorders, including symptomatic disorders, Extrapyramidal and other movement disorders, other degenerative CNS disorders. Demyelinating CNS conditions; cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes, Acute rheumatic fever, chronic rheumatic heart disease, Hypertensive diseases, Ischemic heart disease, Pulmonary heart disease and diseases of the pulmonary circulation, Other forms of heart disease, Cerebrovascular diseases, Chronic lung disease, lung disease due to external agents, interstitial lung disease, other diseases of the respiratory system, Other diseases of the respiratory system, Liver disease, Lung failure, Lung disease due to external agents, Interstitial lung disease, other diseases of the respiratory system, liver disease, renal failure, senility, and musculoskeletal disease.

(ii) The list of diseases proposed by Murtagh et al. contrasted with the groups of diseases analyzed by the Lancet Commission (restricted).

B21, F01-F04, G10, G12, G20-G26, G30, G35-G37, G90.3, I00-I52 (except I21, I24, I26, I30, I40), I60-I69, J40-J47, J60-J65, J96, K70-K77, N18-N19, N28, R54, M00-M97

The following diseases were excluded: Infectious and parasitic diseases resulting from Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Other specified diseases resulting from Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Other conditions resulting from Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Unspecified diseases resulting from Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acute myocardial infarction, Other acute ischemic heart disease, Pulmonary embolism, Acute pericarditis, Acute myocarditis, Acute upper respiratory infections from multiple sites, and Unspecified sites, Influenza due to identified zoonotic or pandemic influenza viruses, Influenza due to identified seasonal influenza viruses, Influenza, unidentified virus, Viral pneumonia, not elsewhere classified, Pneumonia due to Streptococcus pneumonia, Pneumonia due to Haemophilus influenzae, Bacterial pneumonia, not elsewhere classified, Pneumonia due to other infectious organisms not elsewhere classified, Pneumonia in diseases classified elsewhere, Pneumonia, organism unspecified Acute bronchitis, Acute bronchiolitis, Acute lower respiratory infection unspecified.

(iii) Diseases included in Murtagh et al.

B20-B24, F01, F03, G10, G12.2, G20, G23.1, G30, G35, G90.3, I00-I52, I60-I69, J06-J18, J20-J22, J40-J47, J96, K70-K77, N17, N18, N28, R54.

Diseases caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Organic mental disorders, Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Multisystem degeneration, Acute rheumatic fever, chronic rheumatic heart disease, Hypertensive diseases, Ischemic heart disease, Pulmonary heart disease and diseases of the pulmonary circulation, Cerebrovascular diseases, Acute upper respiratory tract infections, Influenza and Pneumonia, Liver diseases, Renal failure, Senility.