Most countries of the world use the international statistical system for recording diseases and problems related to public health – the international classification of diseases of the 10th revision (ICD-10). The purpose of the ICD-10 is to create conditions for the systematic recording, analysis, interpretation and comparison of data on mortality and morbidity obtained in…
The ICD has become the international standard diagnostic classification for all general epidemiological goals and many goals related to health management. They include an analysis of the overall health situation of population groups, as well as the calculation of the frequency and prevalence of illnesses and other health problems in their relationship to various factors….
In June 2018, the World Health Organization published the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). For more than 10 years of work on the document, experts from around the world have proposed about 10,000 changes. The ICD-10 was adopted in 1990 and the new 11th version is quite drastic. Why change something?…
ICD-10 is an international classification of diseases of the Tenth revision. It is a regulatory document with the generally accepted statistical classification of medical diagnoses, which is used in health care to unify methodological approaches and international comparability of materials. ICD-10 was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The words “Tenth Revision” means the…
Attempts to bring together the names of all diseases, streamline them, summarize the groups were taken in the XVIII century. A special contribution was made by Francois Bose de Lacroix (France). William Farr (England, XIX century), who described the principles of building a unified classification, paid great attention to the issue of generalizing diseases. The…