ICD-10 Codes

• Alphanumeric in nature
• 68000 codes
• Each code have 3-7 characters in length
1. Category – 1,2,3
2. Aetiology, Anatomic Sit, Severity, and other clinical details – 4,5,6
3. Extension – 7
• Letter “X” – Empty character space
 Sample

Identifies Mental Indicate type of

Disorder course = Continuous

F 2 0 . 2 2
Section of Indicate type of
Schizophrenia Schizophrenia =
and Related Paranoid
Disorders

Schizophrenia
 Codes

• Codes F01 – F99 cover Mental, Behavioural, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

s.no. Codes Category Name
1. F00 – F09 Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders
2. F10 – F19 Mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive
substance use
3. F20 – F29 Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders
4. F30 – F39 Mood [affective] disorders
5. F40 – F49 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
6. F59 – F59 Behavioural syndromes associated with physiological
disturbances and physical factors
7. F60 – F69 Disorders of adult personality and behaviour
8. F70 – F79 Mental retardation
9. F80 – F89 Disorders of psychological development
10. F90 – F98 Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset
usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
11. F99 Unspecified mental disorder
ICD-10 v/s DSM-5
Key Differences ICD
Purpose Used for classifying all illness and is
used by many health practitioners
Approving Body World Health Organization
Coverage provides guidance and diagnostic
criteria without including
operational criteria
Credence official classification adopted by
many nations around the world
Code Criteria for Asperger's Categorizes Asperger's disorder
Disorder under F84.5
Distinction in Substance Abuse Broadly classifies substance usage,
abuse, and dependence
DSM
Used particularly by psychiatrists as
it represents code set for all mental
disorders
American Psychological Association
provides operational criteria which
distinct definitions for each
condition
official classification in the United
States. But is adopted by many
countries as well
Diagnosis for Asperger's disorder is
included in the Autism Spectrum
Disorder (F84). It was originally
classified under DSM-5
Provides no explicit distinction
between substance abuse and
dependence