| What is ICD? It is the shorter version of | | | | chapters. |
| abbreviation for The International Statistical | | | | - 1.Certain infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Classification of Diseases and Related Health | | | | - 2.Neoplasm |
| Problems. It provides codes to classify diseases | | | | - 3.Diseases of the blood and blood-forming |
| and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal | | | | organs and certain disorders involving the immune |
| findings, complaints, social circumstances and | | | | mechanism |
| external causes of injury or disease. Thus | | | | - 4.Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases |
| whatever the type of health condition, it is put | | | | - 5.Mental and behavioral disorders |
| into a specific category that has other similar | | | | - 6.Diseases of the nervous system |
| diseases and a code is assigned to it. | | | | - 7.Diseases of the eye and adnexa |
| The origins of ICD can be said to have its origins | | | | - 8.Diseases of the ear and mastoid process |
| from the 1850s when the first edition was known | | | | - 9.Diseases of the circulatory system |
| by the name of "International List of Causes of | | | | - 10.Diseases of the respiratory system |
| Death". Who publishes ICD and what is the use of | | | | - 11.Diseases of the digestive system |
| ICD today? Well, ICD is published by the WHO | | | | - 12.Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue |
| (World Health Organization) and is used world-wide | | | | - 13.Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and |
| for the following purposes. ICD is today's | | | | connective tissue |
| international standard for all health related and | | | | - 14.Diseases of the genitourinary system |
| management purposes. | | | | - 15.Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium |
| - Morbidity and mortality statistics, | | | | - 16.Certain conditions originating in the prenatal |
| - Reimbursement systems and | | | | period |
| - Automated decision support in medicine. | | | | - 17.Congenital malformations, deformations and |
| - Epidemiology | | | | chromosomal abnormalities |
| - Population health analysis | | | | - 18.Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and |
| - Monitoring diseases | | | | laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified |
| - Storage of information | | | | - 19.Injury, poisoning and certain other |
| It was in May 1990 that ICD-10 was endorsed | | | | consequences of external causes |
| and only four years later in 1994 did it come into | | | | - 20.External causes of morbidity and mortality |
| use in WHO member States. It is available in the | | | | - 21.Factors influencing health status and contact |
| six official languages of WHO (Arabic, Chinese, | | | | with health services |
| English, French, Russian and Spanish) besides also | | | | - 22.Codes for special purposes |
| in 36 other languages. The ICD 10 is the 2007 | | | | The first draft of the ICD-11 system is expected |
| version is the latest and has the following 22 | | | | in 2008. |