Joint Open letter to WHO/ICD Revision over classification of absent G93.3...
Post #301 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3Pp Today, Sonya Chowdhury, CEO, Action for M.E., has released an Open Letter to Dr Ra’ad Shakir, Chair, ICD-11 Revision Topic Advisory Group for Neurology. The...
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Post #305 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3Rm Update at May 15, 2014: Somatization disorder, listed as a uniquely coded child category under parent, Bodily distress disorder, has been removed from the...
View ArticleCall for Expressions of Interest to review the ICD revision process
Post #312 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-3Yw (If the consulting team that secures the ICD Revision interim assessment contract extends their outreach to include analysis of advocate stakeholder views...
View ArticleICD-11 revision process: External assessment now due April 1
Post #317 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-42A This post is the first in a series of updates on the ICD-11 revision process. Last July, in Call for Expressions of Interest to review the ICD revision...
View ArticleICD-11 Mental Health TAG opposes inclusion of “Functional clinical forms of...
Post #318 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-42P Update: In September, a series of ICD-11 Symposia were held at the World Psychiatric Association XVI World Congress, in Madrid. These included Symposium Code...
View ArticleICD-11 Revision releases External review and Response: shifts projected WHA...
Post #321 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-44N And so it goes on… The revision of ICD-10 and development of ICD-11 kicked off in April 2007. The original projected WHA adoption date was 2011/12 [1]. Then...
View ArticleProposals for the classification of Chronic pain in ICD-11: Part 1
Post #325 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-488 Part 1 In 2013, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) launched a working group tasked with developing proposals for the classification...
View ArticleProposals for the classification of Chronic pain in ICD-11: Part 2
Post #326 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-48Y Click here for Part 1 Part 2: Fibromyalgia On May 5, 2015, the ICD-11 Beta draft category, Fibromyalgia, was removed from the Diseases of the musculoskeletal...
View ArticleChanges to SNOMED CT and Read Codes (CTV3) for CFS, ME and PVFS
Post #327 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-4aD Final post on Dx Revision Watch This is the final report I shall be publishing on Dx Revision Watch. At the end of the year, after 13+ years, I am retiring...
View ArticleICD-11 Beta draft: Rationale for Proposal for Deletion of proposed new...
Post #328 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-4dc ICD-11 Beta draft Proposal Mechanism: https://tinyurl.com/ICD11BDDsubmission (Registration with the Beta draft required in order to view proposals) ICD-11...
View ArticleA proposal for the ICD-10 G93.3 legacy terms for ICD-11: Part One
Post #329 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-4dV Our Proposal and Rationale is set out in Part Two: A proposal for the ICD-10 G93.3 legacy terms for ICD-11: Part Two A version of ICD-11 in 2018 It’s been a...
View ArticleAustralian Senate seeks clarifications from ICD Revision
Post #337 Shortlink: http://wp.me/pKrrB-4iV UK Parliamentary Questions In February and March, the Countess of Mar tabled Written Questions in the House of Lords seeking clarifications from the World...
View ArticleWorld Health Organization finally releases next edition of the International...
Post #339 Shortlink: https://wp.me/pKrrB-4nC (Key links from this post are also available on the ICD-11 2018 tab page.) After 11 years in development and four extensions to the timeline, the World...
View ArticleDraft Resolution for recommendation of adoption and endorsement of ICD-11 at...
Post #351 Shortlink: https://wp.me/pKrrB-4OJ An update on World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board and World Health Assembly (WHA) business: The 144th Session (EB144) of the World Health...
View ArticleSeventy-second World Health Assembly (WHA72) opened Monday, 20 May 2019
Post #352 Shortlink: https://wp.me/pKrrB-4Qm Update: Draft resolution A72/29 Add.1 (ICD-11) passed without amendments Item 12.7 Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases was...
View ArticleICD-11 implementation package
Post #353 Shortlink: https://wp.me/pKrrB-4R7 On Saturday, May 25, 2019, member states meeting at the 72nd World Health Assembly voted unanimously to approve the draft resolution to adopt the Eleventh...
View ArticleWorld Health Assembly adopts ICD-11: When will member states start using the...
Post #354 Shortlink: https://wp.me/pKrrB-4Sm On May 25, 2019, the 72nd World Health Assembly voted unanimously to adopt the ICD-11, the next edition of the International Classification of Diseases...
View ArticleClinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG) for ICD‐11 Mental,...
Post #354 Shortlink: https://wp.me/pKrrB-4IQ The ICD-10 “Blue Book” and “Green Book” In the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 Tabular List there are no disease or disorder descriptions, criteria or...
View ArticlePVFS, ME and CFS in classification and terminology systems: notes for the future
Post #355 Shortlink: https://wp.me/pKrrB-4Yv In 2002, I set up FreeMEuk — a Yahoo Group support and information exchange for patients with ME, CFS, and for carers, like myself. In 2007, I launched ME...
View ArticleWHO approves exclusions for PVFS, ME and CFS under ICD-11’s Bodily distress...
Post #356 Shortlink: https://wp.me/pKrrB-555 An edited version of this report is scheduled for publication in the March edition of the ME Global Chronicle. For ICD-11, most of the ICD-10 F45 Somatoform...
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