background: as the early and accurate diagnosis of all diseases, including skin disorders directly influences the duration of treatment and its costs, which may be a significant burden, it is very important for physicians to be familiar with all types of diseases, especially those with a higher incidence in population. considering that disease patterns vary from region to region and there is no...

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...

This paper presents an approach for automatic mapping of International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD-10) codes to diagnoses extracted from discharge letters. The proposed algorithm is designed for processing free text documents in Bulgarian language. Diseases are often described in the medical patient records as free text using terminology, phrases and paraphrases which differ s...

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...

The classification of diseases has several important applications ranging from diagnosis and choice of treatment to demographics. To date, classifications have been successfully created manually, often within international consortia. Some groups of diseases, such as primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs), are especially hard to nosologically cluster due, on one hand, to the presence of a wide variet...