Meeting of Who Collaborating Centres for the Family of International Classifications

(no more than 200 words) The International Classification of External Causes of Injury version 1.1 (ICECI) was accepted into the alpha phase of the process for admission into the WHO Family of International Classifications at the October 2002 meeting (Brisbane). Technical updates and developments of the ICECI system since that time are described in this paper. These are: 1. ICECI system update to version 1.1a. 2. Indexing: Proof-of-concept of flexible indexing method. Production of index. 3. ICD to ICECI bridge: updated to ICECI version 1.1a 4. ICECI System Repository: Concept and draft specifications produced. 5. ICECI User Training Application: Initial version developed and released for testing. This document is not issued to the general public, and all rights are reserved by the World Health Organization (WHO). The document may not be reviewed, abstracted, quoted, reproduced or translated, in part or in whole, without the prior written permission of WHO. No part of this document may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical or other without the prior written permission of WHO. The views expressed in documents by named authors are solely the responsibility of those authors.