Motor neurone disease (SNOMED-CT) V1.3

To identify motor neurone disease, a code list was created by José Ignacio Cuitún Coronado (Senior Research Associate in Medical Statistics and Applied Health Data Science, University of Bristol) and reviewed by Elizabeth Coulthard (Professor of Cognitive Neurology, University of Bristol).

Step 1. We searched for the following key terms:

• Motor neuron disease
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• MND

Step 2. We excluded irrelevant codes (e.g., codes indicating a prevalent diagnosis or where the diagnosis was unclear):

(A) Codes that identify a prevalent diagnosis:

• History of

(B) Codes that do not relate to the person:

• Family history

(C) Codes where the diagnosis is unclear:

• Assessment
• At risk
• Attendance
• Battery
• Tool
• Referral
• Invite / invitation

(D) Codes excluded upon review by the clinician:

• Society
• Committee
• Medication (partial exclusion)
• Substances (partial exclusion)
• Drugs (partial exclusion)
• Measure / measurement / test / scale questionnaire
• Adult spinal muscular atrophy
• Autosomal dominant adult-onset proximal spinal muscular atrophy
• Autosomal dominant childhood-onset proximal spinal muscular atrophy
• Autosomal dominant congenital benign spinal muscular atrophy
• Autosomal recessive axonal neuropathy with neuromyotonia
• Autosomal recessive distal spinal muscular atrophy type 3**
• Autosomal recessive lower motor neuron disease with childhood onset
• Bulbar weakness
• Bulbospinal neuronopathy
• Congenital pseudobulbar palsy
• Distal hereditary motor neuropathy Jerash type**
• Distal hereditary motor neuropathy type 1
• Distal hereditary motor neuropathy type 7
• Distal spinal muscular atrophy
• Facioscapulohumeral spinal muscular atrophy
• Facioscapulohumeral spinal muscular atrophy with sensory loss
• Kugelberg-Welander disease
• Lethal arthrogryposis co-occurrent with anterior horn cell disease
• Madras-type motor neurone disease
• Mills syndrome
• Neuromyotonia
• Oculopharyngeal spinal muscular atrophy
• Paraneoplastic motor neurone disease
• Post poliomyelitis syndrome
• Progressive bulbar palsy of childhood
• Progressive muscular atrophy
• Scapulohumeral spinal muscular atrophy
• Scapuloperoneal spinal muscular atrophy
• Spastic tetraplegia with rigidity syndrome
• Spinal atrophy, ophthalmoplegia, pyramidal syndrome
• Spinal muscular atrophy
• Spinal muscular atrophy with progressive myoclonic epilepsy
• Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1^^
• Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 2
• Spinal muscular atrophy, Dandy-Walker malformation, cataract syndrome
• Spinal muscular atrophy, type II
• Troyer syndrome
• Upper motor neuron disease
• Werdnig-Hoffmann disease
• Western Pacific motor neurone disease
• X-linked distal arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
• X-linked distal spinal muscular atrophy type 3
• Young adult-onset distal hereditary motor neuropathy^^

No medication/drug/substance(s) were removed unless there was a clear example from the clinician.

^^ This description may not appear using the new search