Defining upper gastrointestinal bleeding from linked primary and secondary care data and the effect on occurrence and 28 day mortality

Table 3 The frequency of ICD 10 codes used to define upper gastrointestinal cases in the hospital episodes statistics database

ICD 10 description	ICD 10	Frequency
Haematemesis	K920	9359
Melaena	K921	5802
Gastrointestinal haemorrhage unspecified	K922	4014
Duodenal ulcer chronic or unspecified with haemorrhage	K264	1333
Gastro-oesophageal laceration-haemorrhage syndrome	K226	1171
Gastric ulcer chronic or unspecified with haemorrhage	K254	1038
Duodenal ulcer acute with haemorrhage	K260	529
Acute haemorrhagic gastritis	K290	525
Oesophageal varices with bleeding	I850	517
Haemorrhage of oesophagus	K228	483
Gastric ulcer acute with haemorrhage	K250	399
Peptic ulcer chronic or unspecified with both haemorrhage and perforation	K274	88
Duodenal ulcer chronic or unspecified with haemorrhage	K266	81
Duodenal ulcer acute with both haemorrhage and perforation	K262	38
Gastric ulcer acute with chronic or unspecified with both haemorrhage and perforation	K256	31
Peptic ulcer acute with haemorrhage	K270	20
Gastric ulcer acute with both haemorrhage and perforation	K252	17
Gastrojejunal ulcer chronic or unspecified with haemorrhage	K284	14
Gastrojejunal ulcer acute with haemorrhage	K280	6
Peptic ulcer chronic or unspecified with haemorrhage	K276	3
Gastrojejunal ulcer chronic or unspecified with haemorrhage	K286	2
Gastrojejunal ulcer with both haemorrhage and perforation	K282	1
Total		25471

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