Re: Off Topic: ICD-10 codes in a database table?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> wrote:

> Andrew Gould wrote:
> > Problem: I've been trying to find a table of ICD-10 codes to import into
> a
> > database; but the only listings that I can find are in publicly available
> > pdf files. I've tried to copy the text to text files, but the resulting
> > layout is horrible -- it would take, literally, weeks or months of manual
> > tweaking to parse.
>
> http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/
>
> That looks like somewhere between half and a full day's work with a bit
> of perl.
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>

I hadn't considered web scraping; but this is the cleanest option I've seen.

Thanks,

Andrew