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International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
The
ICD provides the ground rules
for coding and classifying cause-of-death data. The ICD is developed
collaboratively between the World
Health Organization (WHO) and 10 international centers, one of
which is housed at NCHS.
The
purpose of the ICD is to promote international comparability in the
collection, classification, processing, and presentation of health
statistics. Since the beginning of the century, the ICD has been modified
about once every 10 years, except for the 20-year interval between ICD-9
and ICD-10 (see table IV). The purpose of the revisions is to stay abreast
with advances in medical science. New revisions usually introduce major
disruptions in time series of mortality statistics (see tables
V and VI).
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Comparability
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Classification of Diseases
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Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10)
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