COVID Identification



Coding system
ICD-10
Coding system release
unknown
Organisation
OpenSAFELY
Codelist ID
opensafely/covid-identification
Version Tag
2020-06-03
Version ID
7bbfd8eb

Versions
  • 2020-06-03

Description

The following two ICD-10 codes for COVID identification have been used

U07.1 virus identified Use this code when COVID-19 has been confirmed by laboratory testing irrespective of severity of clinical signs or symptoms. Use additional code, if desired, to identify pneumonia or other manifestations.

U07.2 COVID-19, virus not identified Use this code when COVID-19 is diagnosed clinically or epidemiologically but laboratory testing is inconclusive or not available. Use additional code, if desired, to identify pneumonia or other manifestations

Methodology

We conducted a manual search of WHO ICD-10 browser to find codes related to COVID.

References

Signed off by

  • Brian MacKenna, (June 2, 2020)
  • Alex Walker, (June 3, 2020)

Codelists are developed by a broad community of users for individual study purposes, which may or may not meet the needs of other studies. They should not be thought of as universal definitions of a particular condition.

We don't offer any guarantees about what they do or don't identify. Users should carefully check that any codelist meets their needs, and seek clinical input where appropriate.

icd10_code name
U071 covid19 virus identified
U072 covid19 virus not identified

Codes not in the full codelist are in faint grey.