The introduction of the ICD-10, published by WHO 1992-94 in English and by DIMDI 1994/95 in German, is a very slow process. Some states introduced ICD-10 for the preparation of statistics of mortality, but only few use it for morbidity. ICD-9 is in Germany only in hospitals still in use. Much effort was put into the improvement of the official ICD-10 and the development of additional aids for m...

The shift from version 9 to version 10 of the ICD-code (“International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems”) causes enormous problems for the exploitation of medical data warehouses, since conventional data warehouses do not support the change of the structure of dimensions, i.e. the content and relationships of master data like the diagnostic codes, or other key ...