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Appendix F

Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes

The committee examined the mortality and morbidity experience of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense) veterans and the comparison population using data on cause of death and diagnosis coded in accordance with the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). This appendix provides the ICD codes that correspond to the categories of cause of death or diagnosis used in presenting the results of the analyses. Table F-1 presents the codes for the outcome categories for the analyses that tested the committee’s literature-based hypotheses regarding exposure to substances used in some SHAD tests. Table F-2 and Table F-3 provide the codes that correspond to the categories used in the exploratory analyses of mortality and morbidity.

TABLE F-1 International Classification of Disease Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes Examined for Possible Association with Exposure to Specified Substances Used in SHAD Tests

Exposure and Health Outcome ICD-9 Codes (2011 version) ICD-10 Codes (2011 version)
Betapropiolactone
Cancer (malignant neoplasms), any

140.x-209.x Malignant neoplasms

230.x-234.x Carcinoma in situ

V10.xx Personal history of malignant neoplasm

C00-C97 Malignant neoplasms

C7A.x Malignant neuroendocrine tumors

C7B.x Secondary neuroendocrine tumors

D00-D09 In situ neoplasms

Z85 Personal history of malignant neoplasm

Coxiella burnetii
Endocarditis

421.x Acute and subacute endocarditis

424.9x Endocarditis, valve unspecified

424.99 Other endocarditis, valve unspecified

I33 Acute and subacute endocarditis

I38 Endocarditis, valve unspecified

I39 Endocarditis and heart valve disorders in diseases classified elsewhere

Fatigue syndrome

300.5 Neurasthenia

F48 Other nonpsychotic mental

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21846.
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Exposure and Health Outcome ICD-9 Codes (2011 version) ICD-10 Codes (2011 version)

780.71 Chronic fatigue syndrome

780.79 Other malaise and fatigue

disorders

F48.8 Other specified neurotic disorders

R53.1 Weakness

R53.8 Other malaise and fatigue

R53.82 Chronic fatigue, unspecified

R53.81 Other malaise

R53.83 other fatigue

Chronic hepatitis

571.4x Chronic hepatitis (includes 571.40, 571.41, 571.49)

571.42 Autoimmune hepatitis

573.3 Hepatitis, unspecified

K73.x Chronic hepatitis, not elsewhere classified

K75.4 Autoimmune hepatitis

K75.9 Inflammatory liver disease, unspecified (Hepatitis nos)

Osteomyelitis

730.1xx Chronic osteomyelitis

730.2xx Unspecified osteomyelitis

730.9xx Unspecified infection of bone

M86.6x Other chronic osteomyelitis, unspecified site

M86.9 Osteomyelitis, unspecified

M86.3x Chronic multifocal osteomyelitis

M86.4x Chronic osteomyelitis with draining sinus

M86.5x Other chronic hematogenous osteomyelitis

M86.8x Other osteomyelitis

Vascular infection 447.6 Arteritis, unspecified I77.6 Arteritis, unspecified
Escherichia coli

Irritable bowel syndrome

555.x Regional enteritis (Crohn’s)

556.x Ulcerative enterocolitis

558.x Other and unspecified noninfectious gastroenteritis and colitis

564.1 Irritable bowel syndrome

K50.x Crohn’s disease [regional enteritis]

K51.x Ulcerative colitis

K52.x Other noninfective gastroenteritis and colitis

K58.x Irritable bowel syndrome

Sarin

Neurological effects: Central nervous system

290.xx Dementias

323.7x Toxic encephalitis, myelitis, and encephalomyelitis

323.8x Other causes of encephalitis, myelitis, and encephalomyelitis

327.xx Organic sleep disorders

331.xx Other cerebral degenerations (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, senile degeneration of brain)

332.x Parkinson’s disease

333.0 Other degenerative diseases of

F00.x Dementia in Alzheimer’s disease

F01.xx Vascular dementia

F03.xx Unspecified dementia

G92 Toxic encephalopathy

G04.8x Other encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis

G47.xx Sleep disorders (organic)

G30.x Alzheimer’s disease

G31.xx Other degenerative diseases of nervous system, not elsewhere classified

G20 Parkinson’s disease

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21846.
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Exposure and Health Outcome ICD-9 Codes (2011 version) ICD-10 Codes (2011 version)

the basal ganglia

333.1 Essential and other specified forms of tremor

333.2 Myoclonus

333.3 Tics of organic origin

333.7 Acquired torsion dystonia

333.8 Fragments of torsion dystonia

333.9 Other and unspecified extrapyramidal diseases and abnormal movement disorder

334.2 Primary cerebellar degeneration

334.3 Other cerebellar ataxia

334.4 Cerebellar ataxia in diseases classified elsewhere

334.8 Other spinocerebellar diseases

334.9 Spinocerebellar disease, unspecified

335.2x Motor neuron disease (e.g., ALS)

336.x Other diseases of spinal cord

337.xx Disorders of the autonomic nervous system

338.0 Central pain syndrome

338.29 Other chronic pain

338.4 Chronic pain syndrome

339.xx Other Headache Syndromes

340 Multiple sclerosis

341.xx Other demyelinating diseases of central nervous system

342.xx Hemiplegia and hemiparesis

344.xx Other paralytic syndromes

345.xx Epilepsy and recurrent seizures (excluding

345.6 Infantile spasms)

346.xx Migraine

347.xx Cataplexy and narcolepsy

348.2 Benign intracranial hypertension

348.4 Compression of brain

348.5 Cerebral edema

348.8x Other conditions of brain

348.9 Unspecified condition of brain

349.2 Disorders of meninges, not elsewhere classified

349.8x Other specified disorders of nervous system

349.9 Unspecified disorders of nervous system

781.xx Symptoms involving nervous

G23.x Other degenerative diseases of basal ganglia

G25.0 Essential tremor

G25.2 Other specified forms of tremor

G25.3 Myoclonus

G25.6x Drug induced tics and other tics of organic origin

G25.8x Other specified extrapyramidal and movement disorders

G25.9 Extrapyramidal and movement disorder, unspecified

G24.2x-G24.9x Dystonias

G80.3 Athetoid cerebral palsy

G11.2 Late-onset cerebellar ataxia

G32.81 Cerebellar ataxia in diseases classified elsewhere (Not including hereditary diseases

G11.3, G11.8, G11.9)

G12.2x Motor Neuron disease

G12.8 Other spinal muscular atrophies and related syndromes

G12.9 Spinal muscular atrophy, unspecified

G95.xx Other diseases of spinal cord

G90.xx Disorders of autonomic nervous system

G89.0 Central pain syndrome

G89.29 Other chronic pain

G89.4 Chronic pain syndrome

G44.xxx Other headache syndromes

G35 Multiple sclerosis

G36.x Other acute disseminated demyelination

G37.x Other demyelinating diseases of central nervous system

G81.xx Hemiplegia

G82.xx Paraplegia (paraparesis) and quadriplegia (quadriparesis)

G83.xx Other paralytic syndromes

G40.xx Epilepsy

G43.xxx Migraine

G93.2 Benign intracranial hypertension

G93.5 Compression of brain

G93.6 Cerebral edema

G93.8xx Other specified disorders of brain

G93.9 Disorder of brain, unspecified

G96.1x Disorders of meninges, not

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21846.
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Exposure and Health Outcome ICD-9 Codes (2011 version) ICD-10 Codes (2011 version)

and musculoskeletal systems

784.0 Headache

780.96 Generalized pain

794.0x Nonspecific abnormal results of function study of brain and central nervous system

799.5 Signs and symptoms involving cognition

otherwise classified

G96.8 Other specified disorders of central nervous system

G96.9 Disorder of central nervous system, unspecified

G92 Toxic encephalopathy

G98.x Other disorders of nervous system not elsewhere classified

R25.xxx-R29.xxx Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems

R51 Headache

R52 Pain, not elsewhere classified

R94.0x Abnormal findings of function studies of central nervous system

R41.xx Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

R43.x Disturbances of smell and taste

Neurological effects: Peripheral nervous system

350.x Trigeminal nerve disorders

351.x Facial nerve disorders

352.x Disorders of other cranial nerves

353.x Nerve root and plexus disorders

354.x Mononeuritis of upper limb and mononeuritis multiplex

355.x Mononeuritis of lower limb and unspecified site

357.7 Polyneuropathy due to other toxic agents

357.9 Unspecified inflammatory and toxic neuropathy

358.xx Myoneural disorders

359.3 Periodic paralysis

359.4 Toxic myopathy

359.9 Myopathy, unspecified

781.xx Symptoms involving nervous and musculoskeletal systems

794.1x Nonspecific abnormal results of function study of peripheral nervous system

357.8x Other inflammatory and toxic neuropathy

359.5 Myopathy in endocrine diseases classified elsewhere

359.6 Symptomatic inflammatory myopathy in diseases classified

G50.x Disorders of trigeminal nerve

G51.x Facial nerve disorders

G52.x Disorders of other cranial nerves

G54.x Nerve root and plexus disorders

G55 Nerve root and plexus compressions in diseases classified elsewhere

G56.xx Mononeuropathies of upper limb

G57.xx Mononeuropathies of lower limb

G58.x Other mononeuropathies

G62.2 Polyneuropathy due to other toxic agents

G61.9 Inflammatory polyneuropathy, unspecified

G70.xx Myasthenia gravis and other myoneural disorders

G72.3 Periodic paralysis

G72.2 Myopathy due to other toxic agents

G72.9 Myopathy, unspecified

R25.xx-R29.xx Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems

R94.1xx Abnormal results of function studies of peripheral nervous system

G61.8x Other inflammatory

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21846.
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Exposure and Health Outcome ICD-9 Codes (2011 version) ICD-10 Codes (2011 version)

elsewhere

359.7x Inflammatory and immune myopathies, not elsewhere classified

polyneuropathies

G62.8 Other specified polyneuropathies

G72.4x Inflammatory myopathy, not elsewhere classified

G64 Other disorders of peripheral nervous system

Neurological effects: Hearing loss

389.xx Hearing loss

385.0x Tympanosclerosis

385.1x Adhesive middle ear disease

385.2x Other acquired abnormality of ear ossicles

387.x Otosclerosis

388.xx Other disorders of ear

H90.xx Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss

H91.xx Other hearing loss

H74.0x Tympanosclerosis

H74.1x Adhesive middle ear disease

H74.3x Other acquired abnormalities of ear ossicles

H80.xx Otosclerosis

H93.xxx-H94.xxx Other disorders of ear

Psychological symptoms

293.xx Transient mental disorders due to conditions classified elsewhere

294.xx Persistent mental disorders due to conditions classified elsewhere

295.xx Schizophrenic disorders

296.xx Episodic mood disorders

297.x Delusional disorders

298.x Other nonorganic psychoses

300.xx Anxiety, dissociative and somatoform disorders

301.xx Personality disorders

303.xx Alcohol dependence syndrome

304.xx Drug dependence

305.xx Nondependent abuse of drugs

306.xx Physiological malfunction arising from mental factors

307.xx Special symptoms or syndromes not elsewhere classified (e.g., sleep, eating, tics)

309.xx Adjustment reaction

311 Depressive disorder, not elsewhere classified

312.xx Disturbance of conduct not elsewhere classified

316 Psychic factors associated with diseases classified elsewhere

797 Senility without mention of psychosis

799.2x Nervousness

799.3 Debility, unspecified

799.5 Signs and symptoms involving

F02.8 Dementia in other specified diseases classified elsewhere

F03 Unspecified dementia

F04 Organic amnesic syndrome, not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances

F05 Delirium not induced by alcohol and other psychoactive substances

F06 Other mental disorders due to brain damage and dysfunction and to physical disease

F07 Personality and behavioral disorders due to brain disease, damage, and dysfunction

F09 Unspecified organic or symptomatic mental disorder

F10-F19 Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use

F20-F29 Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders

F30-39 Mood [affective] disorders

F40-48 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders

F50-59 Behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors

F60 Specific personality disorders

F61 Mixed and other personality disorders

R54 Senility (without mention of

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21846.
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Exposure and Health Outcome ICD-9 Codes (2011 version) ICD-10 Codes (2011 version)

cognition

308.x Acute reaction to stress

psychosis)

R45.0 Nervousness

R53 Malaise and fatigue

R41 Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

Staphylococcal enterotoxin type B

Asthma

493 Asthma (includes 493.x, 493.xx)

J45.xx Asthma

Graves’ disease

242.xx Thyrotoxicosis with or without goiter

E05.xx Thyrotoxicosis (includes Graves’ disease)

Multiple sclerosis

340 Multiple sclerosis

G35 Multiple sclerosis

Rheumatoid arthritis: Broad definition

714.0 Rheumatoid arthritis

714.1 Felty’s syndrome

714.2 Other rheumatoid arthritis with visceral or systemic involvement

715.xx Osteoarthrosis and allied disorders

720.0 Ankylosing spondylitis

721.x Spondylosis

M05.xxx Rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor

M06.xx Other rheumatoid arthritis

M15.xxx Polyosteoarthritis

M16.xxx Osteoarthritis of hip

M17.xxx Osteoarthritis of knee

M18.xxx Osteoarthritis of first carpometacarpal joint

M19.xxx Other and unspecified osteoarthritis

M45.xxx Ankylosing spondylitis

M47.xxx Spondylosis

M48.xxx Other spondylopathies

Rheumatoid arthritis: Narrow definition

714.0 Rheumatoid arthritis

714.1 Felty’s syndrome

714.2 Other rheumatoid arthritis with visceral or systemic involvement

720.0 Ankylosing spondylitis

M05.xxx Rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor

M06.xxx Other rheumatoid arthritis

M45.xxx Ankylosing spondylitis

Zinc cadmium sulfide

Lung cancer

162.2, 162.3, 162.4, 162.5, 162.8, 162.9 Malignant neoplasm of bronchus or lung (excluding 162.0 Malignant neoplasm of trachea)

231.2 Carcinoma in situ of respiratory system

V10.11 personal history of malignant neoplasm of bronchus or lung

C34.xx Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung

D02.20 Carcinoma in situ of bronchus and lung

Z85.11x Personal history of malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus and lung

Chronic kidney disease: Broad definition

403.xx (includes stages I-IV)

404.xx Hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease, stage V or ESRD

I12 xx (includes I12.9 stage I-IV)

I13xx Hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease or end stage renal

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21846.
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440.1 Atherosclerosis of renal artery

442.1 Aneurysm of renal artery

572.4 Hepatorenal syndrome

580.xx Acute glomerulonephritis

581.xx Nephrotic syndrome

582.xx Chronic glomerulonephritis

583.xx Nephritis and nephropathy not specified as acute or chronic

584.x Acute kidney failure)

585.x Chronic kidney disease

586 Renal failure, unspecified

587 Renal sclerosis, unspecified

588.xx Disorders resulting from impaired renal function

591 Hydronephrosis

794.4 Nonspecific abnormal results of kidney function study

249.4x Secondary diabetes mellitus with renal manifestations

250.4x Diabetes with renal manifestations

271.4 Renal glycosuria

274.10 Gout nephropathy

283.11 Hemolytic uremic syndrome

589.x Small kidney of unknown origin

disease (includes stage I-IV and V)

I70.1 Atherosclerosis of renal artery

I72.2 Aneurysm of renal artery

K76.7 Hepatorenal syndrome

N00-N06,

N08 Glomerular diseases (excluding

N07 hereditary nephropathy, nos)

N17 Acute renal failure

N18 Chronic kidney disease

N19 Unspecified kidney failure

N26 Unspecified contracted kidney

N25 Disorders resulting from impaired renal tubular function

N13.1, 13.2, 13.3 Hydronephrosis

R94.4 Abnormal results of kidney function studies

E08.22, E09.22, E10.22, E11.22

E13.22 diabetic chronic kidney disease

M10.3x Gout due to renal impairment, unspecified site

D59.3 Hemolytic-uremic syndrome

N27 Small kidney of unknown cause

Chronic kidney disease: Narrow definition

440.1 Atherosclerosis of renal artery

581.xx Nephrotic syndrome

582.xx Chronic glomerulonephritis

583.xx Nephritis and nephropathy not specified as acute or chronic

585.x Chronic kidney disease

586 Renal failure, unspecified

587 Renal sclerosis, unspecified

588.xx Disorders resulting from impaired renal function

794.4 Nonspecific abnormal results of kidney function study

580.xx Acute glomerulonephritis

584.x Acute kidney failure

589.x Small kidney of unknown origin

I70.1 Atherosclerosis of renal artery

N04 Nephrotic syndrome

N03 Chronic nephritic syndrome

N05 Unspecified nephritic syndrome

N18 Chronic kidney disease

N19 Unspecified kidney failure

N26 Unspecified contracted kidney

N25 Disorders resulting from impaired renal tubular function

R94.4 Abnormal results of kidney function studies

N00 Acute nephritic syndrome

N17 Acute Renal failure

N27 Small kidney of unknown cause

NOTE: An x in a code indicates that all versions of the code category preceding the x are included. For example, a code shown as 123.x indicates that the category includes instances of outcomes coded as 123.0, 123.1, . . ., or 123.9. An xx entry indicates a two-digit range of codes (e.g., 123.00, 123.01, etc.).

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Diagnostic Codes Used to Define Health Outcomes." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21846.
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TABLE F-2 Broad Categories of Underlying Cause of Death and the Corresponding Codes from the International Classification of Diseases

Cause of Death ICD-9 (2011 ICD-9 CM) ICD-10 Codes

Cancer (malignant neoplasms), any

140-209, V10 C00-C97, Z85

Cardiovascular disease [Circulatory disease]

390-459 I00-I99

Ischemic heart disease

410-414 I20-I25

Other heart disease

390-409, 415-459 I00-I19, I26-I99

Respiratory disease

460-519 J00-J99

Endocrine and metabolic diseases

240-279 E00-E90

Infectious diseases

001-139 A00-B99

Injury/external causes

800-959, E codes 800-999 S00-T98, V01-X84

Neurocognitive problems

290-319, 320-327 F00-F99, G00-G09
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TABLE F-3 Broad Categories of Diagnoses Received from Inpatient or Outpatient Medical Care and the Corresponding Codes from the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision

Diagnostic Categories ICD-9 (2011 ICD-9 CM)

Infectious diseases

001-139

Cancer (neoplasms, including malignant, benign, in situ)

140-209, 210-229, 230-234, 235-238, 239-239, V10.xx

Endocrine and metabolic diseases

240-279

Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs

280-289

Mental disorders

290-319

Nervous system and sense organs

320-389

Circulatory disease

390-459

Ischemic heart disease

410-414

Other heart disease

390-409, 415-459

Respiratory disease

460-519

Digestive disease

520-579

Genitourinary disease

580-629

Skin disease

680-709

Musculoskeletal disease

710-739

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

780-799

Injury

800-959, E codes 800-999

Neurocognitive problems

290-319, 320-327

NOTES: Claims criteria: At least 1 inpatient, or 2 HOP or Carrier claims with diagnosis codes during the 1-year period; codes have to be on 2 different days. HHA = home health agency; HOP = hospital outpatient.

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Between 1963 and 1969, the U.S. military carried out a series of tests, termed Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), to evaluate the vulnerabilities of U.S. Navy ships to chemical and biological warfare agents. These tests involved use of active chemical and biological agents, stimulants, tracers, and decontaminants. Approximately 5,900 military personnel, primarily from the Navy and Marine Corps, are reported to have been included in Project SHAD testing.

In the 1990s some veterans who participated in the SHAD tests expressed concerns to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that they were experiencing health problems that might be the result of exposures in the testing. These concerns led to a 2002 request from VA to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to carry out an epidemiological study of the health of SHAD veterans and a comparison population of veterans who had served on similar ships or in similar units during the same time period. In response to continuing concerns, Congress in 2010 requested an additional IOM study. This second study expands on the previous IOM work by making use of additional years of follow up and some analysis of diagnostic data from Medicare and the VA health care system.

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