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

Source: National Vital Statistics Reports, "Comparability of Cause of Death Between ICD–9 and ICD–10: Preliminary Estimates," Volume 49, No. 2, May 18, 2001.