ICD-11 is now officially in effect for the national and international recording and reporting of causes of illness, death - and more.
11 February 2022
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The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) provides a common language that allows health professionals to share standardized information across the world. The eleventh revision contains around 17 000 unique codes, more than 120 000 codable terms and is now entirely digital.
All Member States are encouraged to follow their commitment to move on to ICD-11 documented with their approval of ICD-11 at the72ndmeeting of the World Health Assemblyin 2019, and use the most current version of ICD for recording and reporting mortality and morbidity statistics both nationally and internationally.
New in ICD-11 2022
- 35 countries are using ICD-11.
- Current implemented uses of ICD-11 include causes of death, primary care, cancer registration, patient safety, dermatology, pain documentation, allergology, reimbursem*nt, clinical documentation, data dictionaries for WHO guidelines*,digital documentation of COVID-19 vaccination status and test results, and more.
- Frenchlanguage is now available alongsideArabic,Chinese,English, &Spanish. Russian and 20 more languages are underway.
- Integration in DHIS2.
- Terminology coding with the coding tool and API.
- Rare diseases coding.
- Support for perinatal and maternal coding.
- 900 proposals were processed based on input from early adopters, translators, scientists, clinicians and partners.
- Grade and stage coding for cancers.
- Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements for mental health.
*WHO SMART Guidelines include Antenatal Care (ANC) Family Planning (FP), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (ASRH), HIV, Immunizations (EIR), Child Health in Emergency Settings (Em Care).
ICD-11 was specifically designed for the following use cases:
- Certification and reporting of causes of death
- Morbidity coding and reporting includingprimary care
- Casemix and Diagnosis-Related Grouping (DRG)
- Assessing and monitoring the safety, efficacy, and quality of care
- Cancer registries
- Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- Researching and performing clinical trials and epidemiological studies
- Assessing functioning
- Coding traditional medicine conditions
- Interoperability standard in WHO Digital Guidelines and for Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates (DDCC)
- Clinical documentation
ICD-11 key features
- The eleventh revision contains around 17 000 unique codes, more than 120 000 codable terms and is now entirely digital.
- Smart coding algorithm: Now interprets more than 1.6 million terms.
- State of the art Coding tool: Easily codes all detail.
- Digital reference guide.
- ICD-11 Download area: Include spreadsheets, pdf version, mapping tables, updates, list of codes that should not be used alone and more.
- Multilingual integrated API.
- Multilingual Browser and Coding tool.
- Offline functionality.
- Local deployment options for ICD-API: Docker, Windows or Linux service.
- Technical content model reference guide to define and explain the content model used for theWHO Family of Classifications(ICD-11, ICHI and ICF).
- Implementation package to facilitate the transition from outdated ICD-10 to ICD-11. This package can be found onICD-11 pageand includes theTransition and Implementation Guide,ICD-11 Fact Sheet, information onICD-APIweb services,ICD-11 self-learning training package, training platform, cause of death analysis tool (ANACoD-3),ICD-11 licenseand more.
To submit questions and suggestions related to ICD-11 contact[emailprotected].
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ICD-11 highlights
- Conceptual framework independent of language and culture.
- Multilingual.
- Integration of terminology and classification.
- End-to-end digital solution (API, tools, online and offline).
- Up-to-date scientific knowledge.
- ICD-11 is accessible to everybody.
- Open ICD-11 license(distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO license).
- ICD-11 enables, for the first time, the counting of traditional medicine encounters.
- Comparable statistics and semantic interoperability - for 150 years.
- Codes for antimicrobial resistance, in line withGlobal Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS).
- Codes for full documentation of patient safety, in line with the WHO patient safety framework.
- Integration with functioning and interventions (ICF&ICHI**).
**International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) & International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI)
Related links
- ICD-11 technical content
- Additional information on ICD-11
- Interventionsandfunctioningdocumentation complementing ICD-11
- Translations:Arabic,Chinese,English,French,Spanish, andRussian
- ICD-11 is on Social Media:Facebook&Twitter
WHO is committed to supporting all countries as they move towards implementing and scaling-up ICD-11.
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