Internation+Classification+of+Diseases

Term:International Classification of Diseases
Classification used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates. Used to code and classify data from the inpatient and outpatient records, physician offices, and most National Center for Health Statistics(NCHS) surveys. These codes are normally six digits and are defined by signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, or complaints. There are now currently ten editions of ICD codes are revised periodically. ICD-10 is being used to track mortality statistics. They are planning on releasing ICD-11 sometime in 2015 and will be revised using Web 2.0 tools, a specific release date has not yet been set. The more digits the ICD is the more specific the disease description is
 * Description

**Applications ICD-International Classification of Diseases-known as ICD is an international standard for communicating information regarding disease among all countries.
 * Identify a patients disease
 * Record the disease to the Insurance Company
 * Record in the patient's record
 * Terminology**

Web Resources
 * [|Wikipedia.org]
 * [|CDC.gov]

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