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Configure your ICD question

Collect medical conditions using ICD-10 codes, and use both the code and its name later in variables and conditional logic.

An ICD question collects a medical condition using ICD-10, the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases and the common language for recording and reporting diseases. Use it instead of a free-text field wherever the condition has to be comparable or analyzable.

Awell stores both the code and the name

Every condition has a code and a human-readable name, and Awell stores both. "Common cold" is:

  • ICD code: J00
  • Name: Acute nasopharyngitis [common cold]

Both values are available as variables

Either can be printed in a message or a clinical note:

  • Print answer label gives the condition's name, for text a human reads.
  • Print answer value gives the ICD code, for a system that expects the code.

See Use variables in actions.

Conditional logic matches on the code, not the name

Conditions reference the ICD code of the selected disease, so a patient can be routed on their diagnosis. Match on the code rather than the name: the code is stable and the display name is not.

Next steps

Next: Add conditions to questions.

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