Causes of Infant Death
This table provides the International Classification of Diseases codes used to define the Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health (WISH) categories for causes of infant death. WISH uses the ICD-10 titles for both the ICD-9 and ICD-10 categories. Categories are not always precisely equivalent between ICD-10 and ICD-9, but combining both sets of codes into a single database permits analysis of infant mortality across years.
Analysts examining trends for multiple years that include both ICD-10 (1999 and later) and ICD-9 (1989-1998) codes should read Trend Analysis Caution and Comparability Ratios (PDF, 129 KB).
| ICD-10 (1999 and later) | ICD-9 (1989-1998) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Codes | Title | Codes |
| Certain Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period (P00-P96) (Not a single category) | Certain Conditions Originating in the Perinatal Period (760-779) (Not a single category) | ||
| Newborn affected by maternal complications of pregnancy | P01 | Newborn affected by maternal complications of pregnancy | 761 |
| Newborn affected by complications of placenta, cord, membranes | P02 | Newborn affected by complications of placenta, cord, membranes | 762 |
| Disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight, not elsewhere classified | P07 | Disorders related to short gestation and unspecified low birth weight | 765 |
| Respiratory distress of newborn | P22 | Respiratory distress syndrome | 769 |
| Bacterial sepsis of newborn | P36 | Other infections specific to the perinatal period | 771.8 |
| Other conditions originating in the perinatal period | P00, P03-P06, P08-P21, P23-P37, P38-P96 | Other conditions originating in the perinatal period | 760, 763-764, 766-768, 770-771.7, 771.9 -779 |
| Other Causes | Other Causes | ||
| Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | Q00-Q99 | Congenital anomalies | 740-759 |
| Sudden infant death syndrome | R95 | Sudden infant death syndrome | 798.0 |
| Accidents (unintentional injuries) | V01-X59 | Accidents | E800-E869, E880-E929 |
| Assault (homicide) | X85-Y09 | Homicide | E960-E969 |
| Other | All other ICD-10 codes | Other | All other ICD-9 codes |