Table 3 Mapping of neurological disease categories to ICD-10 category codes and their descriptions.

From: Multinational characterization of neurological phenotypes in patients hospitalized with COVID-19

Disease category

ICD-10 codea

ICD-10 code description

Consciousness

R41

Other symptoms and signs involving cognitive functions and awareness

Coordination

R27

Other lack of coordination

Dizziness

R42

Dizziness and giddiness

Headache

G44

Other headache syndromes

Inflammatory

G03

Meningitis due to other and unspecified causes

Inflammatory

G04

Encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis

Muscle

G72

Other and unspecified myopathies

Muscle

M60

Myositis

Neuropathy

G61

Inflammatory polyneuropathy

Neuropathy

G65

Sequelae of inflammatory and toxic polyneuropathies

Neuropathy

R43

Disturbances of smell and taste

Other

G93

Other disorders of the brain

Psychiatric

F29

Unspecified psychosis not due to a substance or known physiological condition

Seizure

G40

Epilepsy and recurrent seizures

Vascular

G45

Transient cerebral ischemic attacks and related syndromes

Vascular

G46

Vascular syndromes of brain in cerebrovascular disease

Vascular

I60

Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage

Vascular

I61

Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage

Vascular

I62

Other and unspecified nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage

Vascular

I67

Other cerebrovascular diseases

Vision

H54

Blindness and low vision

  1. aTo standardize the collection of ICD codes across diverse contributing healthcare systems and to mitigate coding discrepancies, we used ICD codes at the categorical level (e.g., the first 3 alphanumeric characters before the decimal point for ICD-10).