The following table represents the Coding of Death (​CoDe) standard. The newest version is available in the Review Form ​2.2.

Use the most specific coding available whenever possible.

Code	Cause of Death
01	AIDS (ongoing active disease)
01.1	Infection
01.2	Malignancy
02	Infection (other than 01.1)
02.1	Bacterial
02.1.1	Bacterial with sepsis
02.2	Others
02.2.1	Others with sepsis
02.3	Unknown aetiology
02.3.1	Unknown with sepsis
03	Chronic viral hepatitis (progression of/complication to)
03.1	HCV
03.1.1	HCV with cirrhosis
03.1.2	HCV with liver failure
03.1.3	HCV with liver cancer
03.2	HBV
03.2.1	HBV with cirrhosis
03.2.2	HBV with liver failure
03.2.3	HBV with liver cancer
04	Malignancy (other than 01.2 and 03, 03.1, 03.2)
04.03	ANUS - Anal cancer
04.04	BLAD - Bladder cancer
04.05	BONE - Bone cancer
04.06	BRAC - Brain cancer
04.07	BRCA - Breast cancer
04.10.1	ALL - Leukaemia: Acute lymphoid
04.10.2	AML - Leukaemia: Acute myeloid
04.10.3	CLL - Leukaemia: Chronic lymphoid
04.10.4	CML - Leukaemia: Chronic myeloid
04.10.9	LEUK - Leukaemia: unspecified
04.11	COTC - Connective tissue cancer
04.12	ESOP - Esophagus cancer
04.13	GALL - Gallbladder cancer
04.14	GYCA - Gynaecologic cancer
04.15	HDL - Hodgkin lymphoma
04.16	HENE - Head and neck (incl. face) cancers
04.17	KIDN - Kidney cancer
04.18	COLO - Colon cancer
04.19	LIPC - Lip cancer
04.20	LIVR - Liver cancer
04.21	LUNG - Lung cancer
04.22	MALM - Malignant melanoma
04.27	MULM - Multiple myeloma
04.29	PANC - Pancreas cancer
04.31	PENC - Penile cancer
04.32	PROS - Prostate cancer
04.33	RECT - Rectum cancer
04.34	STOM - Stomach cancer
04.35	TESE - Testicular seminoma
04.36	UTER - Uterus cancer
04.40.1	MEAC - Metastasis: of adenocarcinoma
04.40.2	MEOC - Metastasis: of other cancer type
04.40.3	MESC - Metastasis: of squamuos cell carcinoma
04.40.9	META - Metastasis: unspecified
04.90	OTH - Other Malignancy Type
04.99	UNKP - Unknown Malignancy Type
05	Diabetes Mellitus (complication to)
06	Pancreatitis
07	Lactic acidosis
08	MI or other ischemic heart disease
08.1	AMI
08.1.1	Definitive AMI (Dundee 1)
08.1.2	Possible AMI (Dundee 2/9)
08.2	Other ischemic heart disease
09	Stroke
10	Gastro-intestinal haemorrhage (if chosen, specify underlying cause)
11	Primary pulmonary hypertension
12	Lung embolus
13	Chronic obstructive lung disease
14	Liver failure (other than 03, 03.1, 03.2)
15	Renal failure
16	Accident or other violent death (not suicide)
17	Suicide
18	Euthenasia
19	Substrance abuse (active)
19.1	Chronic Alcohol abuse
19.2	Chronic intravenous drug-use
19.3	Acute intoxication
20	Haematological disease (other causes)
21	Endocrine disease (other causes)
22	Psychiatric disease (other causes)
22.1	Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of psychoactive substances (other than alcohol and intravenous opioids)
22.2	Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional Disorders
22.3	Mood /Affective disorders (Major depressive disorder, Bipolar disorder and other mood disorders)
22.4	Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders (including anxiety disorders, phobias, OCD, stress reaction, dissociative disorders, somatoform disorders)
22.5	Behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors (including eating disorders, sleep disorders, sexual disorders)
22.90	Other psychiatric disorders
23	CNS disease (other causes)
23.1	Movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease; dystonias and Parkinson-like syndromes)
23.2	Degenerative disorders of the central nervous system (Alzheimer's disease; Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and other degenerative diseases of nervous system)
23.3	Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system (Multiple sclerosis, other demyelinating diseases)
23.4	Epilepsy (including localised and generalized epilepsy and epileptic syndromes)
23.5	Polyneuropathies (Guillain–Barré syndrome and other polyneuropathies/disorders of the peripheral nervous system)
23.6	Diseases of myoneural junction and muscle (Miastenia gravis and other myoneural disorders)
23.90	Other disorders of the nervous system
24	Heart or vascular (other causes)
25	Respiratory disease (other causes)
26	Digestive system disease (other causes)
27	Skin and motor system disease (other causes)
28	Urogential disease (other causes)
29	Obstetric complications
30	Congenital disorders
31	Symptoms caused by mitochondrial toxicity (other than 06, 07)
32	Bleeding (haemophilia)
33	Sudden infant death
33.1	Child abuse
90	Other causes
91	Unclassifiable causes
92	Unknown
92.1	Unknown, Competing risks

The following additional codes are used in the ​TB-HIV study, but not yet officially included in ​CoDe.

Code	Cause of Death
01.1.1	Tuberculosis
01.1.1.1	Pulmonary tuberculosis
01.1.1.2	Extrapulmonary TB
01.1.1.2.01	Pleura (isolated, without lungs involvement
01.1.1.2.02	Lymphatic intrathoracic (isolated, without lungs involvement)
01.1.1.2.03	Lymphatic extrathoracic
01.1.1.2.04	Pericardia
01.1.1.2.05	Spine
01.1.1.2.06	Bone/joints other than spine
01.1.1.2.07	Meningitis
01.1.1.2.08	CNS other than meningitis
01.1.1.2.09	Genito-urinary tract
01.1.1.2.10	Peritoneal/digestive
01.1.1.2.11	TB with poly-organ failure/ TB sepsis
01.1.1.3	Disseminated tuberculosis
01.1.1.3.01	Lungs
01.1.1.3.02	Miliary
01.1.1.3.03	Pleura
01.1.1.3.04	Lymphatic intrathoracic
01.1.1.3.05	Lymphatic extrathoracic
01.1.1.3.06	Pericardia
01.1.1.3.07	Spine
01.1.1.3.08	Bone/joints other than spine
01.1.1.3.09	Meningitis
01.1.1.3.10	CNS other than meningitis
01.1.1.3.11	Genito-urinary tract
01.1.1.3.12	Peritoneal/digestive
01.1.1.3.13	TB with poly-organ failure/ TB sepsis
01.1.2	other AIDS-defining infection
01.1.2.1	with lungs involvement
01.1.2.2	with CNS involvement
01.2.1	AIDS Malignancy localised to lungs
01.3	IRIS after cART initiation (can only be used as contributing cause of death)
02.1.2	Bacterial pneumonia 02.1.3 Bacterial meningitis
02.2.2	other pneumonia 02.2.3 other with CNS involvement
19.3.1	Toxicity to anti-TB drugs