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Volume 21 Supplement 6

Spotlight on ICD-11: New Features and New Opportunities

Research

Work for the series of articles has been undertaken by the WHO-fic (World Health Organization Family of International Classifications) Network. Funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (grant number 5R13HS020543-02) supported aspects of this work and activities of several of the authors. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no competing interests.

Edited by Danielle A Southern, Harold A Pincus, Olafr Steinum and William A Ghali.

  1. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has long been the main basis for comparability of statistics on causes of mortality and morbidity between places and over time. This paper provides an overvie...

    Authors: James E. Harrison, Stefanie Weber, Robert Jakob and Christopher G. Chute
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21(Suppl 6):206
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. The new International Classification of Diseases—11th revision (ICD-11) succeeds ICD-10. In the three decades since ICD-10 was released, demands for detailed information on the clinical history of a morbid pat...

    Authors: Saskia E. Drösler, Stefanie Weber and Christopher G. Chute
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 21(Suppl 6):278
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  3. ICD-11 provides a promising new way to capture healthcare-related harm or injury. In this paper, we elaborate on the framework for describing healthcare-related events where there is a presumed causal link bet...

    Authors: Danielle A. Southern, James E. Harrison, Patrick S. Romano, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Harold A. Pincus and William A. Ghali
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 21(Suppl 6):376
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  4. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has progressed from a short list of causes of death to become the predominant classification of human diseases, syndromes, and conditions around the world. Th...

    Authors: Christopher G. Chute and Can Çelik
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 21(Suppl 6):378
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  5. A new coding feature introduced with ICD-11, the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), is postcoordination, which supports combining (linking) two or more codes into a cluster th...

    Authors: Kristy Mabon, Olafr Steinum and Christopher G. Chute
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 21(Suppl 6):379
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  6. Accurate data collection of healthcare-related adverse events provides a foundation for quality and health system improvement. The International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistic...

    Authors: Cathy A. Eastwood, Shahreen Khair and Danielle A. Southern
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 21(Suppl 6):380
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  7. Traditional medicine (TM) is practiced in various forms in over 180 countries. Despite this, health information systems on TM are limited. Consistent with this, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) internatio...

    Authors: Bill Reddy and Arthur Yin Fan
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 21(Suppl 6):381
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  8. Diagnoses that arise after admission are of interest because they can represent complications of health care, acute conditions arising de novo, or acute decompensation of a chronic comorbidity occurring during...

    Authors: Vijaya Sundararajan, Marie-Annick Le Pogam, Danielle A. Southern, Harold Alan Pincus and William A. Ghali
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2022 21(Suppl 6):382
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  9. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) international classification of disease version 11 (ICD-11) contains several features which enable improved classification of patient safety events. We have identified thr...

    Authors: Alan J. Forster, Christopher G. Chute, Harold Alan Pincus and William A. Ghali
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 21(Suppl 6):383
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  10. Many circumstances necessitate judgments regarding causation in health information systems, but these can be tricky in medicine and epidemiology. In this article, we reflect on what the ICD-11 Reference Guide ...

    Authors: Jean-Marie Januel, Danielle A. Southern and William A. Ghali
    Citation: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2023 21(Suppl 6):385
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