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===ICD===
The International Classification of Disease ([[ICD]]) is the most widely recognized medical classification. Maintained by the [[World Health Organization]] ([[WHO]]), its primary purpose is to categorise diseases for morbidity and mortality reporting. However the coded data is often used for other purposes too; including reimbursement practices such as [[medical billing]]. ICD has a hierarchical structure, and coding in this context, is the term applied when representations are assigned to the words they represent. Coding diagnoses and procedures is the assignment of codes from a code set that follows the rules of the underlying classification or other coding guidelines. The current version of the ICD, [[ICD-10]], was endorsed by [[WHO]] in 1990. WHO Member states began using the ICD-10 classification system from 1994 for both morbidity and mortality reporting. The exception was the US, who only began using it for reporting mortality in 1999 whilst continuing to use [[ICD-9-CM]] for morbidity reporting. The US only adopted its version of ICD-10 in October 2015. The delay meant it was unable to compare US morbidity data with the rest of the world during this period. The next major version of the ICD, [[ICD-11]], was ratified by the 72nd [[World Health Assembly]] on 25 May 2019, and member countries have been able to report data using ICD-11 codes since 1 January 2022.
[[ICD-11]] is a fully digital product with integration of clinical terminology and classification. It allows documentation at any level of detail. It includes extension codes, a terminology system, with medicaments, chemicals, infections agents, histopathology, anatomy and mechanisms, objects and animals, and other elements that serve to describe sources of injury or harm.

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