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Provision should be made for the asterisk code to be used in addition if the alternative method of presentation may also be required. While the dagger and asterisk system provides alternative classifications for the presentation of statistics, it is a principle of the ICD that the dagger code is the primary code and must always be used.

This convention was provided because coding to underlying disease alone was often unsatisfactory for compiling statistics relating to particular specialties, where there was a desire to see the condition classified to the relevant chapter for the manifestation when it was the reason for medical care. The primary code is for the underlying disease and is marked with a dagger (+) an optional additional code for the manifestation is marked with an asterisk (*). The РІР‚Сљdagger and asteriskРІР‚Сњ system in ICD-10 ICD-9 introduced a system, continued in ICD-10, whereby there are two codes for diagnostic statements containing information about both an underlying generalized disease and a manifestation in a particular organ or site which is a clinical problem in its own right. The dagger and asterisk system of dual classification for certain diagnostic statements, introduced in the Ninth Revision, has been retained and extended, with the asterisk axis being contained in homogeneous categories. The former supplementary classifications of external causes and of factors influencing health status and contact with health services now form part of the main classification. New chapters have been created for diseases of the eye and adnexa and diseases of the ear and mastoid process. In order to make optimum use of the available space, certain disorders of the immune mechanism are included with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs (Chapter III). This provides a larger coding frame and leaves room for future revision without disruption of the numbering system, as has occurred at previous revisions. The traditional ICD structure has been retained but an alphanumeric coding scheme replaces the previous numeric one. While no single classification will fit all the specialized needs, it should provide a common basis of classification for general statistical use that is storage, retrieval and tabulation of data. Adjustments must also be made to meet the varied requirements of vital statistics offices, hospitals of different types, medical services of the armed forces, social insurance organizations, sickness surveys, and numerous other agencies.

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The various titles will represent a series of necessary compromises between classifications based on etiology, anatomical site, circumstances of onset, etc., as well as the quality of information available on medical reports. Because of this conflict of interests, efforts to base a statistical classification a strictly logical adherence to any one axis have failed in the past. A statistical classification of disease and injury will depend, therefore, upon the use to be made of the statistics to be compiled.

In other words there are many axes of classification and the particular axis selected will be determined by the interest of the investigator. The anatomist, for example, may desire a classification based on the part of the body affected whereas the pathologist is primarily interested in the nature of the disease process, the public health practitioner in etiology and the clinician in the particular manifestation requiring his care. There are many possible choices for these criteria. Disease ClassificationР”Р„ classification of diseases may be defined as a system of categories to which morbid entities are assigned according to some established criteria. The World Health Organization welcomes such applications.

For rights of reproduction or translation of WHO publications, in part or in toto, application should be made to the Office of Publications, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Publications of the World Health Organization enjoy copyright protection in accordance with the provisions of Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. ICD is published by the World Health Organization (WHO). In the meantime, coders MUST know ICD-9, which is what Meditec trains students on. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in January 2009 that ICD-10-CM will be implemented into the HIPAA mandated code set on Oct. What is it? DonРІР‚в„ўt be fooled by programs which promise to train on ICD-10. Most providers are have historically been and are currently working with the 9th edition (revision) of the ICD codes. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is designed for the classification of Morbidity and Mortality information for statistical purposes, and for the indexing of hospital records by disease and operations, for data storage and retrieval. ICD РІР‚вЂњ International Classification of Diseases

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