The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and World Health Organization (WHO) are currently engaging in the revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10). Polish Psychiatric Association (PPA) is participating in that process and the first step was an international survey of Polish psychiatrists expressing their experiences and concepts about the new...

The International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision Procedure Classification System (ICD-10-PCS) has been developed as a replacement for Volume 3 of the International Classification of Diseases 9th Revision. The development of ICD-10-PCS was funded by the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration. ICD-10-PCS has a multi-axial seven character alphanumerical code structure, which provides ...

The Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology (ICD-DA) takes from the parent volume (the International Classification of Diseases) all those items of specific interest in regard to oral pathology whether they be common or rare conditions, or whether the pathology originates in the oral cavity or is a manifestation of a systemic disease. The initial...

International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Traumata and Causes of Death does not regulate the wording of diagnosis in the medical history, protocol of a post mortem examination, or even medical certificate of cause of death. The only thing that is required in the latter is putting the pathogenetic sequence in reverse order and indicating in point Ia the certificate of illness or comp...