First Virtual Meeting ICD10h Classifications (WG2)

The first meeting of the subgroup ICD10 Classifications of Working Group 2: Methods and tools for standardization, coding and classifying causes of death takes place on Thursday 21 November 10:45-11:45 CET. 

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More information regarding the first meeting:

The 2024 version of ICD10h comes with two classifications designed for use with historic causes of death over time. The first of these is HistCat – a general historic categorisation designed to allow English language causes to be compared to the changing English/Welsh and Scottish nosologies from the mid 19^th century onwards. The second is InfantCat, which is designed for use with infant death, separating out some causes of particular interest in infancy, and combining others which are rare at that time of life. A third classification for use with child deaths is under construction.

We would like to produce mappings of ICD10h codes onto other categorisations to facilitate comparisons with other research and with historic published data. Useful categorisations include (but are not limited to) ICD1, ICD2 … ICD9, BeRaSaRo classification, classifications used in particular countries.We would also like to produce a morbidity classification, and perhaps other classifications for other age groups (eg old age) or disease groups (eg tuberculosis).

We would therefore like to set up a series of sub working groups to work on mapping ICD10h codes to specific classifications. For the best outcome, each sub working group (one per classification) would include effort from a small group of people, to enable the allocation of codes to be checked and conflicts resolved. The resulting classifications, with their constituent ICD10h codes, will be published under the authorship of the working group members.

We envisage this working as follows:

• We choose a small number of categorisations to start with.
• Appropriate working groups are then formed.
• Within each working group, members separately map ICD10h codes onto the classification.
• One or more members combines the mappings, performs some basic checks and identifies conflicts in the coding.
• The working group meets to discuss and resolve the conflicts.
• The ICD10h-classification mapping is deposited with authorship assigned to all members of that particular sub working group.