COVID-19 data collection and coding direction

• March 20, 2023: Mapping COVID-19 Codes: ICD-10-CA to WHO’s Base ICD-10 (PDF)
• March 20, 2023: COVID-19: Locating the ICD-10-CA/CCI Code — Job Aid (PDF)
• March 14, 2022: Canadian Coding Standards for Version 2022 ICD-10-CA and CCI, Addendum: Pandemics and Epidemics (COVID-19)

We will provide updates if new codes are released by the World Health Organization (WHO).

• January 4, 2021: Update: Capturing COVID-19–related diagnoses in the NRS
• October 1, 2020: Data element for CCRS and IRRS (COVID-19 Status at discharge from long-term care and continuing care)
• May 13, 2020: COVID-19 coding direction for dialysis patients: Canadian Organ Replacement Register (CORR)
• May 13, 2020: COVID-19 coding direction for transplant recipients: Canadian Organ Replacement Register (CORR)
• April 2, 2020: Capturing COVID-19 Diagnoses Using interRAI Assessments in Long-Term Care, Home Care and Inpatient Mental Health
• April 2, 2020: Capturing COVID-19 Diagnoses in the NRS 
• April 2, 2020: Important Information for CCRS, HCRS, IRRS, OMHRS and NRS

Clinicians can help ensure that COVID-19 data supports disease surveillance activities. These simple guides will help them ensure their COVID-19 documentation is precise and supports quality data capture.

• How can clinicians help ensure that data supports monitoring for confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19?
• How can clinicians help ensure that data supports monitoring for post COVID-19 conditions?

We’re offering flexible submission options for accelerated reporting of COVID-19 records to the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS).

• Accelerated COVID-19 reporting of NACRS ED and DAD inpatient records (for British Columbia health authorities)

• Using the MIS Standards to Report COVID-19–Related Expenses to CIHI (PDF)

• Race-based and Indigenous identity data