Introduction to ICD-10

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is an internationally unified disease classification method formulated by WHO. It classifies diseases according to their etiology, pathology, clinical manifestations, anatomical parts and other characteristics, and makes them into an orderly combination, which is expressed by coding. The international statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (revised edition 10) is still the abbreviation of ICD, collectively referred to as ICD- 10.

Contrast and difference

The difference between ICD-9 and ICD- 10:

First of all, the classification name was changed from International Classification of Diseases to International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, and the book was changed from two volumes to three volumes. The classification chapter has been added, and the core content has been expanded, from the original l7 chapter to the 2l chapter. For some diseases involving immune mechanism, the order of each chapter is appropriately adjusted. Secondly, ICD- 10 cited the alphabet for the first time, and changed from "pure number coding" to "mixed letter and number coding". Another innovation of ICD- 10 is the postoperative diseases in some categories near the end of this chapter. Third, ICD-9 does not include the "notes" at the beginning of each chapter, but is extended in ICD- 10 to explain part of each chapter. ICD- 10 summarizes the information of asterisks into the median of 82 simple asterisks in a three-digit category for selection.

Development history

ICD has a history of 1 10 years. As early as 189 1, in order to uniformly register the number of deaths, the International Statistical Institute organized a committee to classify the causes of death. 1893, Jacques Bertilon, chairman of the Committee, proposed a classification, which was the first edition. It will basically be modified once in 10. The 6th revision of 1940 was undertaken by the World Health Organization, which introduced the disease classification for the first time and emphasized the concept of continuing to use the etiology classification. 1994 Geneva's revised version of 10 has been widely used in the world, which is the global ICD- 10. 20 10 who released the latest updated version of ICD- 10.

localization

Who only provides ICD- 10 with 4-digit code. Countries can add extra codes to increase the number of diseases when quoting. Australia released the first ICD- 10AM with 5-digit code in 1998. Then Canada in 2000, France in 2005, Thailand in 2007 and Korea in 2008 all produced their own localized versions. The United States will officially launch the 6-digit coded ICD- 10 in June/3.

According to WHO regulations, localized versions of countries can be converted into standard ICD- 10 codes for international communication.