Journal article
Opportunities and challenges for quality and safety applications in ICD-11: An international survey of users of coded health data
DA Southern, M Hall, DE White, PS Romano, V Sundararajan, SE Droesler, HA Pincus, WA Ghali
International Journal for Quality in Health Care | Published : 2016
Abstract
Objective: In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) plans to release the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The overall goal of the WHO is to produce a new disease classification that has an enhanced ability to capture health concepts in a manner that is compatible with contemporary information systems. Accordingly, our objective was to identify opportunities and challenges in improving the utility of ICD-11 for quality and safety applications. Design: A survey study of international stakeholders with expertise in either the production or use of coded health data. Setting: International producers or users of ICD-coded health care data. Study Participants..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, through Grant Number 5R13HS020543-02. Additional support was provided by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant Number UL1 TR000040 as well as the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute of Health, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Canadian Institute for Health Information. W.G. is funded as Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AI-HS) senior health scholars.