bjb40 / cause_death

Pulls flat text docuemnts from CDC ftp file and generates csv files for comparing causes of death.

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Bryce Bartlett
Parser for ICD9 and ICD10 cause of death codes (python).

#Overview

This collects publicly available information from divisions of CDC related to formal causes of death under the international classifications of disease.

#Links to Source Files

Mortality data: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/DVS/mortality/

Website link and summaries: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/Vitalstatsonline.htm

ICD summaries: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10.htm

ICD 9: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Publications/ICD-9/

ICD 10: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Publications/ICD10/

#Output This contains results of the parser, including a detailed readme.txt explaining the source and contents of the .csv files.

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Pulls flat text docuemnts from CDC ftp file and generates csv files for comparing causes of death.


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