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ICD-10

license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - de
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - text-retrieval
tags:
  - medical
  - icd-10
  - icd-10-gm
  - clinical-coding
  - german
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: icd10.jsonl

ICD-10-GM Codes (German)

Complete hierarchy of ICD-10-GM diagnosis codes with their German descriptions, scraped from the official German National Health Portal gesund.bund.de.

11072 codes across the full classification.

Fields

field	description
`code`	ICD-10-GM code, e.g. `A22.7`
`description`	official German label, e.g. `Milzbrandsepsis`
`body_text`	plain-language German explanation of the code, written for laypeople by the "Was hab' ich?" gGmbH; empty string when the portal has no explanation for that code
`text_variations`	alternative spellings — the dot-less compact form, e.g. `["A227"]` (empty list when identical to `code`)
`parent_code`	direct parent code in the hierarchy (`null` for top-level categories)
`parent_slug`	parent URL slug (`null` for top-level categories)
`slug`	URL slug on gesund.bund.de, e.g. `a22-7`
`depth`	hierarchy depth (1 = three-char category such as `A22`)
`url`	canonical source page

Distribution: depth 1: 1757, depth 2: 9315. 8537 of 11072 codes carry a plain-language body_text.

In icd10.csv, text_variations is |-joined; in icd10.jsonl it is a JSON list.

Example

{"code": "A22.7", "description": "Milzbrandsepsis",
 "body_text": "Sie haben sich mit Milzbrand-Erregern angesteckt.\n\nMilzbrand-Erreger sind bestimmte Bakterien...",
 "text_variations": ["A227"], "parent_code": "A22", "parent_slug": "a22",
 "slug": "a22-7", "depth": 2, "url": "https://gesund.bund.de/icd-code-suche/a22-7"}

Hierarchy

The classification is a tree: three-character categories (e.g. A22) are parents of their subcodes (A22.0, A22.7, …), which may themselves have deeper subcodes. Walk it via parent_code, or reconstruct ranges from code.

Source & method

Built by crawling the publicly served code pages on gesund.bund.de (the National Health Portal run by the German Federal Ministry of Health). Each page lists its direct children and carries the code + description in its heading; the tree was walked from the 26 letter indices down to every leaf. A documented JSON search API also exists at https://search.gesund.bund.de/v1/gematik?q=<code>&collection=icd.

Descriptions are the official German ICD-10-GM labels as published on the portal. Provided for research; verify against the official BfArM/DIMDI classification for clinical or billing use.

Companion file: top ICD codes by specialty

top_icd_by_specialty_2024q1.json — the most frequent ICD-10 categories per ambulatory care specialty in KV Nordrhein, Q1/2024 (source: KV Nordrhein "Die 100 häufigsten ICD-10-Schlüssel und Kurztexte"), joined to the canonical German descriptions and body_text of this dataset on the 3-character ICD category.

Shape: {quarter, n_specialties: 21, specialties: [{care, codes: [...]}]}, where each code has rank, icd, anteil_pct (share of cases in %), kurztext (KV short label), description (official ICD-10-GM label), and body_text.

Note: in the source, Internisten (fachärztlich tätig) and Nervenheilkunde are split into several unlabeled subspecialty lists; only the first list of each is kept here, so those two entries represent one subspecialty rather than a specialty-wide aggregate.