introduction: cardiovascular diseases are important factors at human death and factor destroys human resources. health intervention is a service for developing of health and diagnoses or modifies of process diseases. it is necessary that every country regarding to its goals, laws national, interests and standards, considers establishing such a system. a comparison of cardiovascular disease clas...

The deadline for replacing International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition (ICD-9) code sets with the newer ICD-10 code sets, used for the reporting of medical diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures, was recently updated to occur at a date no sooner than October 1, 2015; with October 1, 2015 being the likely implementation date. The transition to ICD-10 is mandatory for all entities ...

Current efforts in the biomedical ontology community focus on establishing interoperability and data integration. In covering human diseases, one of the major international standards in clinical practice is the International Classification for Diseases (ICD), maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO). Several countryand language-specific adaptations exist which share the general structu...

BACKGROUND The existing definitions of visual impairment in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases are based on recommendations made over 30 years ago. New data and knowledge related to visual impairment that have accumulated over this period suggest that these definitions need to be revised. DISCUSSION Three major issues need to be addressed in the revision of these definit...