The following is an example of how the look-up tool works. Suppose the cause of death you are researching includes the two words “kidney” and “acute”.
Opening the Stata do file, type the text “kidney” and “acute” in the spaces indicated (up to 5 terms can be entered). Stata prints several results to a text file, which can be opened in any text editor. The first result is the number of causes that contain only the terms entered, in this case: “No cases containing ONLY these terms”.
The second result is the probability of each of the ICD causes to contain those terms:
Probability for each ICD containing these terms
In this example, of all ICD causes in which these terms appear, there is a 50% probability of being coded to ICD 120 “Bright’s Disease”, and a 25% probability of being coded to 122 “Other diseases of the kidney and annexa” or 189 “Cause of death not specified or ill-defined”.
The third return provides the probabilities broken down by literal cause, showing the probability of the literal causes in our database containing “kidney” and “acute” being coded to each of the ICD causes:
Probability for each ICD & LITERAL COD containing these exact terms