Healthcare burden of rare diseases in Hong Kong - adopting ORPHAcodes in ICD-10 based healthcare administrative datasets.
Annie Ting Gee ChiuClaudia Ching Yan ChungWilfred Hing Sang WongSo Lun LeeBrian Hon-Yin ChungPublished in: Orphanet journal of rare diseases (2018)
Cross referencing between ICD-10 and ORPHAcodes may be adopted in different healthcare datasets for international comparison. Despite differences in the prevalence of individual disease, the disparity between rare disease prevalence (1.5%) and associated inpatient cost (4.3%) in Hong Kong reflects the importance of rare diseases in healthcare policies.