1. ICD-11 for quality and safety: overview of the who quality and safety topic advisory group
- Author
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Ghali, W.A., Pincus, H.A., Southern, D.A., Brien, S.E., Romano, P.S., Burnand, B., Drösler, S.E., Sundararajan, V., Moskal, L., Forster, A.J., Gurevich, Y., Quan, H., Colin, C., Munier, W.B., Harrison, J., Spaeth-Rublee, B., Kostanjsek, N., and Ustün, T.B.
- Abstract
This paper outlines the approach that the WHO's Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC) network is undertaking to create ICD-11. We also outline the more focused work of the Quality and Safety Topic Advisory Group, whose activities include the following: (i) cataloguing existing ICD-9 and ICD-10 quality and safety indicators; (ii) reviewing ICD morbidity coding rules for main condition, diagnosis timing, numbers of diagnosis fields and diagnosis clustering; (iii) substantial restructuring of the health-care related injury concepts coded in the ICD-10 chapters 19/20, (iv) mapping of ICD-11 quality and safety concepts to the information model of the WHO's International Classification for Patient Safety and the AHRQ Common Formats; (v) the review of vertical chapter content in all chapters of the ICD-11 beta version and (vi) downstream field testing of ICD-11 prior to its official 2015 release. The transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11 promises to produce an enhanced classification that will have better potential to capture important concepts relevant to measuring health system safety and quality-an important use case for the classification.
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- 2013