Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG) for ICD‐11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

June 28, 2019 by

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The ICD-10 “Blue Book” and “Green Book”

In the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 Tabular List there are no disease or disorder descriptions, criteria or diagnostic guidelines in any chapters other than the brief description texts for disorders coded within Chapter V Mental and behavioural disorders.

The WHO describes these brief description texts as suitable for use by coders or clerical workers and to serve as a reference point for compatibility with other classifications. These brief texts are not recommended for use by mental health professionals.

Two companion publications were developed for use with ICD-10’s Chapter V which expand on these brief texts and provide clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines. These publications are available as license free downloads:

The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines (aka the “Blue Book”) intended for mental health professionals for general clinical, educational and service use:​

Click to access bluebook.pdf

 

The ICD-10 Diagnostic criteria for research (aka the “Green Book”) produced for research purposes and designed to be used in conjunction with the Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines “Blue Book”:

Click to access GRNBOOK.pdf

 

A survey of nearly 5,000 psychiatrists in 44 countries sponsored by the WHO and the World Psychiatric Association found that 70% of respondents mostly used the ICD-10 classification system in their daily clinical work compared to 23% of practitioners primarily using the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV [1].

 

ICD-11 and the CDDG

For ICD-11, the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse has developed the “Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG) for ICD‐11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.”

The CDDG provides expanded clinical descriptions, essential (required) features, boundaries with other disorders and normality, differential diagnoses, additional features, culture-related features and codes for all mental and behavioural disorders commonly encountered in clinical psychiatry; it is intended for mental health professionals and for general clinical, educational and service use.

The CDDG does not provide diagnostic criteria. The essential features are less rigid than DSM-5’s criteria sets and allow practitioners more flexibility to use clinical discretion when making a diagnosis.

 

CDDG review process

The CDDG review process has been undertaken via the Global Clinical Practice Network.

Qualified clinicians who signed up to participate in the CDDG guideline review process have been able to review and provide feedback on the draft content. No draft texts have been made available for public stakeholder scrutiny and comment and I have not had access, for example, to the most recent draft for the clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines for ICD-11’s Bodily distress disorder.

This paper in the February 2019 edition of World Psychiatry (Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders) describes major changes to the structure of the ICD‐11 classification of mental disorders as compared to ICD‐10; discusses new categories added for ICD‐11 and presents rationales for their inclusion; and describes important changes that have been made in each ICD‐11 disorder grouping [2].

What the paper does not give is a firm release date for the CDDG — stating only that the WHO will publish the CDDG as soon as possible following approval of the overall system by the World Health Assembly (WHA).

Member states approved the draft resolution to adopt ICD-11 at the 72nd World Health Assembly, in May 2019. Endorsement takes effect from January 01, 2022, which is the earliest date from which member states can begin reporting data using the new ICD-11 code sets.

Extract from Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders:

Disorders of bodily distress and bodily experience

ICD‐11 disorders of bodily distress and bodily experience encompass two disorders: bodily distress disorder and body integrity dysphoria. ICD‐11 bodily distress disorder replaces ICD‐10 somatoform disorders and also includes the concept of ICD‐10 neurasthenia. ICD‐10 hypochondriasis is not included and instead is reassigned to the OCRD [Ed: Obsessive‐compulsive and related disorders] grouping.

Bodily distress disorder is characterized by the presence of bodily symptoms that are distressing to the individual and an excessive attention directed toward the symptoms, which may be manifest by repeated contact with health care providers69. The disorder is conceptualized as existing on a continuum of severity and can be qualified accordingly (mild, moderate or severe) depending on the impact on functioning. Importantly, bodily distress disorder is defined according to the presence of essential features, such as distress and excessive thoughts and behaviours, rather than on the basis of absent medical explanations for bothersome symptoms, as in ICD‐10 somatoform disorders.

*Embedded links to the ICD-11 Orange Maintenance Platform disorder descriptions are not included in the paper.

DSM-5’s Somatic symptom disorder is listed under Synonyms to ICD-11’s Bodily distress disorder and indexed to 6C20.Z Bodily distress disorder, unspecified.

The CDDG is expected to be published as a licence free download. When the WHO has released the CDDG, I will update this post.

 

This Letter to the Editor published in the June 2019 edition of World Psychiatry (Public stakeholders’ comments on ICD-11 chapters related to mental and sexual health) summarizes common themes of the submissions for the mental disorder categories that generated the greatest response [3].

Extract:

A majority of submissions regarding bodily distress disorder were critical, but were often made by the same individuals (N=8). Criticism mainly focused on conceptualization (48%; κ=0.64) and the disorder name (43%; κ=0.91). Use of a diagnostic term that is closely associated with the differently conceptualized bodily distress syndrome5 was seen as problematic. One criticism was that the definition relies too heavily on the subjective clinical decision that patients’ attention directed towards bodily symptoms is “excessive”. A number of comments (17%; κ=0.62) expressed concern that this would lead to patients being classified as mentally disordered and preclude them from receiving appropriate biologically-oriented care. Some contributors submitted proposals for changes to the definition (30%; κ=0.89). Others opposed inclusion of the disorder altogether (26%; κ=0.88), while no submission (κ=1) expressed support for inclusion. The WHO decided to retain bodily distress disorder as a diagnostic category6 and addressed concerns by requiring in the CDDG the presence of additional features, such as significant functional impairment.

 

Note: “Use of a diagnostic term that is closely associated with the differently conceptualized bodily distress syndrome5 was seen as problematic.”

Whilst it is welcomed that this specific concern has been acknowledged within this Letter to the Editor, I have drawn to the authors’ attention that WHO/ICD Revision has repeatedly failed to respond to requests to provide a rationale for its re-purposing of a diagnostic term that is already strongly associated with the Fink et al (2010) Bodily distress syndrome*, despite provision of examples from the literature clearly demonstrating that these two terms have been used interchangeably by researchers and practitioners, since 2007 [4].

The potential for confusion and conflation of these differently conceptualized disorder constructs was acknowledged by the WHO’s Dr Geoffrey Reed, in 2015. However, there has been no discussion of this potential in any of the S3DWG working group’s progress reports and field trial evaluations. If the WHO is not willing to reconsider and remedy this problem, there is the expectation that a rationale for going forward with the Bodily distress disorder term is provided for clinical and public stakeholders.

*Operationalized in Denmark and beyond, BDS is differently conceptualized to ICD-11’s BDD diagnostic construct: BDS has very different criteria/essential features, based on physical symptom patterns or clusters from organ systems; psychobehavioural responses to symptoms do not form part of the BDS criteria; BDS requires the symptoms to be “medically unexplained”; is inclusive of a different patient population to ICD-11’s BDD, and crucially, is considered by its authors to capture myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, IBS and fibromyalgia patients under a single, unifying BDS diagnosis.

As an unprocessed proposal is currently under review with the CSAC/MSAC committees I have requested that earlier submissions, which were marked as rejected in February 2019 with no adequate rationale for dismissing the concerns raised within them, are reconsidered and that the WHO responds to three specific concerns:

a) its re-purposing of a disorder term already in use interchangeably for a differently conceptualized disorder construct;

b) the potential difficulties of maintaining disorder construct integrity within and beyond ICD-11 and the implications for clinical utility, data reporting and statistical analysis;

c) the requirement for adding exclusions under BDD for Concept Title 8E49 Postviral fatigue syndrome and its inclusion terms, to mitigate confusion/conflation with the Fink et al (2007, 2010) Bodily distress syndrome.

 

Bodily distress disorder in SNOMED CT

The SNOMED CT Concept term SCTID: 723916001: Bodily distress disorder was added to the July 2017 release of the SNOMED CT International Edition.

SNOMED International’s classification leads confirmed that the term had been added by the team working on the SNOMED CT and ICD-11 MMS Mapping Project as “an exact match for the ICD-11 term, Bodily distress disorder.”

In ICD-11, Bodily distress disorder has specifiers for three degrees of severity: Mild BDD; Moderate BDD; and Severe BDD, which are each assigned a unique code and a discrete description/characterization text.

It was submitted that including the three ICD-11 BDD severities might help clinicians and coders distinguish between the SNOMED CT/ICD-11 Bodily distress disorder concept term and the similarly named, but differently conceptualized, Bodily distress syndrome (Fink et al 2010), which has two severities.

A request for addition of the three BDD severities was submitted and approved in early 2018 and Mild BDD; Moderate BDD; and Severe BDD were added as three discretely coded for Children concepts for the July 2018 release of the International Edition and subsequently absorbed into the various national editions.

 

ICD-11 PHC

The ICD-11 CDDG should not be confused with the ICD-11 PHC.

Since 2012, I have been reporting on the parallel development of the ICD-11 Primary Health Care (PHC) Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Mental Disorders (ICD-11 PHC).

The ICD-11 PHC is a revision of the Diagnostic and Management Guidelines for Mental Disorders in Primary Care: ICD-10 Chapter V Primary Care Version. 1996.

ICD-11 PHC is a clinical tool written in simpler language to assist non-mental health specialists in primary care settings and non medically trained health workers, and also intended for use in low resource settings and in low- to middle-income countries.

It comprises 27 mental disorders considered to be most clinically relevant in primary care and low resource settings. (It is a misnomer to refer to the ICD-11 PHC as the “Primary Care version of ICD-11” since it contains just 27 mental disorders and no general medical diseases or conditions.)

It is important to note that like the ICD-10 PHC, this revised diagnostic and management guideline won’t be mandatory for use by member states, although the WHO hopes this revised edition will have greater clinical utility than the ICD-10 PHC (1996).

The WHO intends to make the ICD-11 PHC publication, once completed, free to download by anyone. There is currently no date available for its projected finalization or release.

The revision is the responsibility of the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse advised by an external advisory group — the Primary Care Consultation Group (PCCG) which is chaired by Prof Sir David Goldberg*; Vice-chairs: Dr Michael Klinkman and WHO’s, Dr Geoffrey Reed.

*Prof Sir David Goldberg also chaired the working group for the development of ICD-10 PHC (1996). Dr Michael Klinkman is a GP who represents WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors) and current convenor of WONCA’s International Classification Committee (WICC) that is responsible for the development and update of the WHO endorsed, ICPC-2 (International Classification of Primary Care).

The full draft texts for the 27 mental disorder categories proposed for inclusion in the ICD-11 PHC have not been made available for public scrutiny, but a number of progress papers, field trial evaluations and presentations have been published since 2010 [5-8].

25 of the 27 mental disorder categories proposed for inclusion in the ICD-11 PHC have equivalence with mental disorder classes within the core ICD-11’s Chapter 06.

ICD-11 PHC is proposed to include a disorder category called “Bodily stress syndrome (BSS)” which replaces ICD-10 PHC’s “F45 Unexplained somatic complaints/medically unexplained symptoms” and “F48 Neurasthenia” categories.

This proposed “Bodily stress syndrome (BSS)” diagnosis has been adapted from the Fink et al (2010) Bodily distress syndrome (BDS). “Bodily stress syndrome (BSS)” does not have direct equivalence to a diagnostic construct in the core ICD-11.

The ICD-11 PHC’s “Bodily stress syndrome (BSS)” requires at least 3 persistent, medically unexplained symptoms, over time, of cardio-respiratory, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, or general symptoms of tiredness and exhaustion, that result in significant distress or impairment.

Under exclusions and differential diagnoses for BSS, certain psychiatric and general medical diagnoses have to be excluded but CFS, ME; IBS; and FM appear not to be specified as exclusions. So this (non mandatory) 27 mental disorder guideline needs very close scrutiny.

For the mandatory core ICD-11 classification, the WHO is going forward with the differently conceptualized, Bodily distress disorder (BDD), which has close alignment with DSM-5’s Somatic symptom disorder.*

*See: Comparison of SSD, BDD, BDS, BSS in classification systems, Chapman & Dimmock, July 2018.

 

If ICD-11 PHC goes forward with its proposed BSS category, there will be all these diagnostic constructs in play:

Somatic symptom disorder (DSM-5; under Synonyms to BDD in the core ICD-11)
Bodily distress disorder (core ICD-11; SNOMED CT)
Bodily stress syndrome (ICD-11 PHC guideline for 27 mental disorders)
Bodily distress syndrome (Fink et al 2010, operationalized in Denmark and beyond)

plus the existing ICD-10 and SNOMED CT Somatoform disorders categories and their equivalents in ICPC-2.

 

References:

1 Reed GM, Correia J, Esparza P, Saxena S, Maj M (2011). The WPA-WHO global survey of psychiatrists’ attitudes towards mental disorders classification. World Psychiatry, 10, 118–131. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/j.2051-5545.2011.tb00034.x

2 Reed GM, First MB, Kogan CS, et al. Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders. World Psychiatry, 2019;18(1):3–19. doi:10.1002/wps.20611
Html: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313247/
PDF: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6313247/pdf/WPS-18-3.pdf

3 Fuss J, Lemay K, Stein DJ, Briken P, Jakob R, Reed GM and Kogan CS. (2019). Public stakeholders’ comments on ICD‐11 chapters related to mental and sexual health. World Psychiatry, 18: 233-235. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wps.20635

4 Chapman S. Proposal and rationale for Deletion of the Entity Bodily distress disorder. Proposal submitted via ICD-11 Beta draft Proposal Mechanism, March 02, 2017.

5 T P Lam, D P Goldberg, A C Dowell, S Fortes, J K Mbatia, F A Minhas, M S Klinkman. Proposed new diagnoses of anxious depression and bodily stress syndrome in ICD-11-PHC: an international focus group study, Family Practice, Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 76–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cms037

6 MASTER PROTOCOL Depression, Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms in Global Primary Care Settings: A Field Study for the ICD-11-PHC Version 2 for WHO Research Ethics Review Committee.

Click to access WorldHealth14.pdf

7 Fortes, Sandra, Ziebold, Carolina, Reed, Geoffrey M, Robles-Garcia, Rebeca, Campos, Monica R, Reisdorfer, Emilene, Prado, Ricardo, Goldberg, David, Gask, Linda, & Mari, Jair J.. (2019). Studying ICD-11 Primary Health Care bodily stress syndrome in Brazil: do many functional disorders represent just one syndrome? Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 41(1), 15-21. Epub October 11, 2018.
Html: https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1516-4446-2018-0003
PDF: http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbp/v41n1/1516-4446-rbp-1516444620180003.pdf

8 Presentation: Rosendale, M (2017). MUS becomes Bodily Stress Syndrome in the ICD-11 for primary care

 

Resources:

Comparison of Classification and Terminology Systems, Chapman & Dimmock, July 2018

Comparison of SSD, BDD, BDS, BSS in classification systems, Chapman & Dimmock, July 2018

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World Health Assembly adopts ICD-11: When will member states start using the new edition?

June 17, 2019 by

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On May 25, 2019, the 72nd World Health Assembly voted unanimously to adopt the ICD-11, the next edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

Endorsement won’t come into effect until January 1, 2022, which is the earliest date that member states can begin using ICD-11 for reporting data.

A stable version of the ICD-11 MMS was released in June 2018 to enable member states to begin planning for implementation. This release was replaced in April 2019 with ICD-11 MMS Version: 04/2019.

ICD-11 is an electronic classification containing over 55,000 codes and a considerably more complex product than ICD-10. It has been designed to incorporate or link with other ICD classifications, such as the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), the WONCA* developed International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC), and with the SNOMED-CT and OrphaNet terminologies.

Even the earliest implementers will need several years to evaluate the new edition, determine how they will use ICD-11, complete translations, produce training and implementation materials and prepare their health systems for migration. Japan is understood to be well advanced with translations and planning.

There is no mandatory implementation date: member states will migrate to ICD-11 at their own pace and according to their countries’ needs and resources but there is an expectation that countries will start planning for transition. Some member states may need to develop clinical modifications of ICD-11 for country specific use. A few countries still use ICD-9.

Global implementation of the new edition will be a patchy and prolonged process and during the transition period, WHO will be accepting data reported using both ICD-10 and the new ICD-11 code sets until the majority of member states have transitioned to the new edition. WHO has said that the last update to ICD-10 will be Version 2019.

No member states have announced timeline projections but below is a round-up of ICD-11 transition planning activities already in progress:

*World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians.

 

NHS England

NHS England mandates the use of ICD-10 in secondary care (currently using ICD-10 Version 2015).

As a WHO Collaborating Centre and designated UK Field Trial Centre, NHS Digital has taken part in ICD-11 Field Trials.

NHS Digital has said:

No decision has been made for the implementation of ICD-11 in England, however NHS Digital plan to undertake further testing of the latest release and supporting products that will inform a future decision.

NHS Digital Delen: ICD-11 resources page

Proposed Future Additions

Over the coming months, NHS Digital would like to engage and invite all users of ICD to participate and interact with the review process.

To support this, we are proposing to add the following information to our Delen site;

  • A mechanism for questions, issues, concerns and errors relating to ICD-11 to be raised to us as the UK Field Trial Centre.
  • A high-level overview of our future plans
  • Presentations providing more information on ICD-11
  • e-Learning materials to support familiarisation with ICD-11. Topics to include post coordination / cluster coding, chapter and code structure, chapter specific changes and notes, conventions etc
  • Further testing – parallel coding in ICD-10 in real-time. If you would be interested in taking part in this please let us know by emailing icd-11@nhs.net

Until NHS England has implemented ICD-11, the mandatory classification system for use in the NHS remains ICD-10.

Since April 2018, SNOMED CT (which replaces the Read Codes/CTV3 clinical terminology) has been the mandatory terminology system for use in NHS primary care at the point of contact and forms an integral part of the electronic patient record (EPR).

SNOMED CT terminology system is already used in some secondary care settings but is planned to be implemented across all secondary care, acute care, mental health, community systems, dentistry and other systems used in direct patient care by April 2020.

SNOMED CT terminology system and clinical classifications, like ICD-10, work together to fulfil different needs:

Source: Presentation: NHS Digital: Clinical Coding for non coders – Overview of clinical coding, how ICD-10 and SNOMED CT work together, and the role of the Clinical Classifications Service.

For more information on the planning that will be required before ICD-11 can be implemented within the NHS, see BETA – Clinical Information Standards, section: ICD-11 and the new Procedure Based Classification (PBC).

Resources:

NHS Digital Delen Home Page

NHS Digital SNOMED CT resources

SNOMED CT UK Edition browser

 

Australia

Australia uses a modification of the WHO’s ICD-10, known as ICD-10-AM [1].

Australian classification standards and statistics agencies were well represented on the ICD-11 Joint Task Force, with 5 of the Joint Task Force’s 21 members representing Australia, plus co-chair (Dr James Harrison, Director, Research Centre for Injury Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide) and observer (Dr Richard Madden, Professor of Health Statistics and Director National Centre for Classification in Health, University of Sydney).

For comparison, the UK had only an observer on the Joint Task Force; the U.S. had 4 participants and an observer.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has been conducting a review of ICD-11 to inform and assist decision-makers about the new edition and its potential for adoption in Australia, see Post: #349: Australia: Potential adoption of ICD-11: Pre-consultation for decision makers.

1 Australian Consortium for Classification Development

 

Canada

Canada uses a modification of the WHO’s ICD-10, known as ICD-10-CA, developed by Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) [1].

CIHI is participating in the testing of ICD-11 and assessing the implications for potential implementation in Canada.

CIHI has said that no decision has been made for the implementation of ICD-11 in Canada and that they are currently working on a number of initiatives to better understand the differences between ICD-10-CA and ICD-11 to help inform the business and statistical implications of adoption.

April 15, 2019 webinar:

https://www.cihi.ca/en/submit-data-and-view-standards/codes-and-classifications/icd-11

https://www.cihi.ca/fr/normes-et-soumission-de-donnees/codification-et-classification/cim-11

Introduction to ICD-11 — Part 1 Transcript and Recording

https://www.cihi.ca/en/bulletin/webinar-introduction-to-icd-11-part-1

https://www.cihi.ca/fr/bulletin/webinaire-introduction-a-la-cim-11-partie-1

Introduction to ICD-11 — Part 2 Transcript and Recording

https://www.cihi.ca/en/bulletin/webinar-introduction-to-icd-11-part-2

https://www.cihi.ca/fr/bulletin/webinaire-introduction-a-la-cim-11-partie-2

 

1 Version 2018 ICD-10-CA/CCI, Canadian Coding Standards and related products

 

United States

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the federal agency responsible for the use of ICD-10 in the United States.

ICD-10 has been used in the U.S. to code and classify mortality data from death certificates since January 1999. NCHS developed a clinical modification of ICD-10 for morbidity purposes (ICD-10-CM) which replaced ICD-9-CM on October 1, 2015.

Since its initial launch, in 2007, the U.S. has maintained high level participation in the ICD-11 development process and its ongoing update and improvement:

The U.S. provided representatives from professional and scientific organisations, academics and practitioners for the ICD-11 Topic Advisory Groups (TAGs) and sub working groups. Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research developed the web based iCAT Collaborative Authoring Platform on which ICD-11 was developed.

The U.S. has representatives on the ICD-11 governance committees via the WHO-FIC Network; the Medical Scientific Advisory Committee (MSAC); the Classifications and Statistics Advisory Committee (CSAC); the Mortality and Morbidity (MbRF) Reference Groups; and the Functioning and Disability Reference Group, which have oversight for the annual updating and ongoing improvement of the global ICD-11 edition.

Dr Geoffrey Reed (WHO, Geneva; Columbia University) is Senior Project Lead for the ICD-11 Mental Health chapter and a member of the MSAC; Steven Hyman, MD (former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and former DSM-5 Task Force member) chaired the Topic Advisory Group for Mental Health; Michael B First, MD has served as a key external advisor to the Mental Health chapter. Harold Pincus, MD co-chaired the ICD-11 Quality and Patient Safety Topic Advisory Group.

Dr Christopher Chute (John Hopkins University) chaired the ICD-11 Revision Steering Committee, was a member of the Joint Task Force and now co-chairs the MSAC; Donna Pickett (Chief, Classifications and Public Health Data Standards, NCHS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Head, Collaborating Center for the WHO-FIC in North America) co-chaired the Morbidity TAG, was a member of the Joint Task Force and is a member of the CSAC; Dr Robert Anderson (Chief, Mortality Statistics Branch Division of Vital Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) was a member of the Joint Task Force and co-chaired the Mortality TAG; Cille Kennedy (ASPE) co-chaired the ICD-11 Functioning TAG; Sue Bowman (Senior Director of Coding Policy and Compliance, AHIMA) is a representative on the ICD-11 Morbidity Reference Group (MbRF).

Around 25 member states have modified ICD-10 for country specific use.

WHO is still formulating policies around the licensing of ICD-11 but it is understood that the intention is to limit development of national modifications.

See Presentation slides #36-38 for more information on licensing and the development of country modifications: Insights into the Next Revision: Like Texas, Everything is Bigger in ICD-11, Kathy Giannangelo, RHIA, CCS, CPHIMS, FHIMA, Texas Health Information Management Association.

It would be premature to speculate when the U.S. might be ready to migrate to ICD-11 for mortality (cause of death reporting) and whether ICD-11 will be adequate as a morbidity classification system for U.S. use or whether NCHS will need to develop a clinical modification, as it did for ICD-10.

It was put forward at the June 5-6, 2019 NCVHS meeting that the U.S. might potentially use ICD-11 unmodified if WHO were to incorporate some additional terms within the global ICD-11 edition.

NCVHS has initiated the process of planning for transition to ICD-11 at the federal level.

In February 2019, William W Stead, MD, Chair, NCVHS, sent a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommending a simplified process for adopting future versions of ICD. The letter also recommended that HHS should invest now in an ICD-11 evaluation project and develop a plan to enable a smooth, transparent transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11 at the optimal time.

 

NCVHS meetings:

The U.S. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) serves as the statutory public advisory body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for health data, statistics, privacy, and national health information policy and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

A National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Full Committee Meeting was held on June 5-6, 2019.

Agenda: Full Committee Meeting-June 5-6, 2019

Presentations were given for Agenda item: ICD-11 Project:

Recording Mp3: Full Committee Meeting – Day 1 June 5, 2019

Agenda item: ICD-11 Project: presentations and discussions starts 2hrs: 50 mins in from start; closes 5hrs 55mins from start.

Recording Mp3: Full Committee Meeting – Day 2 June 6, 2019

Meeting summaries, transcripts, presentation slides may be available later.

 

ICD-11 Expert Roundtable Meeting August 6-7, 2019

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Subcommittee on Standards held an

ICD-11 Evaluation Expert Roundtable Meeting on August 6-7, 2019.

Mp3 recordings of this two day NICD-11 Expert Roundtable meeting are now available:

Agenda

Recording Mp3 ICD-11 Expert Roundtable Meeting – Day 1 August 6, 2019

Recording Mp3 ICD-11 Expert Roundtable Meeting – Day 2 August 7, 2019

Update

Transcript Day 1 –  August 6, 2019
[165pp]

Transcript Day 2 – August 7, 2019
[129pp]

These transcripts of the ICD-11 Roundtable two day meeting are 165 and 129 pages long and the files have only recently been posted on the NCVHS site.

I have not had time to review these yet, but they are essential reading for industry and public stakeholders in the U.S.’s potential adoption of ICD-11 or NCHS/CDC’s potential development of a clinical modification of ICD-11.

Federal Register notice of meeting:

PDF: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-07-08/pdf/2019-14375.pdf

Presentation slides may be available later.

Slide presentation: NCVHS Update, Rich Landen, Member, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, Co‐chair, Standards Subcommittee, August 2019: 

Update: 

A preliminary summary of the August 6-7, 2019 ICD-11 Roundtable meeting has now been posted by NCVHS:

International Classification of Diseases,
Eleventh Revision (ICD-11) Expert Roundtable

Publication Date: October 10, 2019 PDF: Preliminary Meeting Summary

Key Points for planned Letter to Secretary, HHS:

Appendix E: Final Research Questions [Will be inserted by Expert Roundtable group when final]

Appendix F: ICD-11 Communications Plan [Will be inserted by Expert Roundtable group when final]

 

Coding industry reports:

AHIMA Participates in ICD-11 Expert Roundtable summary by Sue Bowman, MJ, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA, Aug 28, 2019

US gets the ball rolling on ICD-11 AAPC, August 16, 2019

 

1 WHO Group Discusses ICD-11 Transition Planning report by Sue Bowman, MJ, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA for Journal of AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association)

2 Presentation: Status on ICD-11: The WHO Launch National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, July 18, 2018, Donna Pickett, Chief, Classifications and Public Health Data Standards, Head, Collaborating Center for the WHO-FIC in North America; Robert N. Anderson, PhD Chief, Mortality Statistics Branch Division of Vital Statistics

 

WHO-FIC Africa

WHO-FIC Africa Collaborating Centre has said:

ICD-10 is the current standard for Morbidity (cause of illness) and Mortality (cause of death (COD) coding.

The ongoing implementation and maintenance of ICD-10 for mortality and morbidity coding remain a core focus of the WHO-FIC Collaborating Centre (African region). Following the release of ICD-11 MMS in June 2018, there will be increasing focus on ICD-11 in the work plan of the collaborating centre. Inputs to the development of ICD-11 are essential to ensure that the classification meets regional needs.

WHO-FIC Africa News: WHO on the Implementation of ICD-11, November 2018:

WHO-FIC collaborators met in Pretoria (South Africa) on 7 November 2018, discussing the implications for implementing ICD-11 and ICHI. We linked up with Nenad Kostanjsek from WHO (Geneva), who shared his thoughts about the preparation for implementation of ICD-11.

Download presentation slides

 

Other member states

This table from the eHealth DSI Semantic Knowledge Base project compiles information provided from a number of member states on their use of ICD (or a modification of ICD) and their plans regarding potential future implementation of ICD-11. Information provided by: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxenbourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain.

Table: Current status of the use of ICD by eHDSI deploying countries (2018)

Resources:

ICD-11: The 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases – Site maintained by eHealth DSI Semantic Community providing resources for ICD-10, ICD-11, ICD derivative classifications and other classification and terminology systems

Insights into the Next Revision: Like Texas, Everything is Bigger in ICD-11, Kathy Giannangelo, RHIA, CCS, CPHIMS, FHIMA, Texas Health Information Management Association

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ICD-11 implementation package

June 6, 2019 by

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On Saturday, May 25, 2019, member states meeting at the 72nd World Health Assembly voted unanimously to approve the draft resolution to adopt the Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases. The resolution passed with no amendments.

Adoption comes into effect on January 1, 2022, subject to transitional arrangements. After this date, member states can start using or transitioning to the ICD-11 codes when they have prepared their health systems for migration from earlier editions.

Source: Presentation slides: Dr Robert Jakob, November 2018 Information session on ICD-11

 

The two key documents for Agenda Item 12.7 Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases are:

A72/29 Add.1
Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases
Draft Resolution

A72/29
Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases
Report by the Director-General

 

Implementation package

The World Health Organization (WHO) has prepared an implementation package. These tools can be accessed at ICD-11.

 

1) ICD-11 Implementation or Transition Guide (version 1.05, May 2019)

This document is a part of the ICD11 implementation package¹ developed by the World Health Organization. This document also provides some background related to the development of the ICD11 and its components. The document outlines essential issues that countries need to consider in the lead up to and during the transition from an existing ICD environment to the eventual implementation of ICD11.

1 The ICD-11 implementation package comprises the Classification System, the Coding Tool, Browser and all supporting documents including the Reference Guide and Implementation Guide, and a set of tools. Source: ICD-11 Implementation or Transition Guide, Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019; License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

 

2) Coding tool (multilingual)

Index based search tool.

See Additional resources [1] for NHS overview of ICD-11 Coding Tool.

 

3) ICD-11 browser for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (MMS)

Blue ICD-11 MMS platform (current release: 04 / 2019)

English: https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en

Spanish: CIE-11 para estadísticas de mortalidad y morbilidad (Versión : 04 / 2019): https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/es

See Additional resources [2] for NHS overview of ICD-11 MMS Browser and [3] for general overview of ICD-11.

 

4) ICD-11 Reference Guide (version 11-04-2019)

Detailed guide to ICD-11 and how to use it; update and maintenance workflow; updating cycles; requirements for proposal submission.

 

5) ICD-10 / ICD-11 mapping Tables

Map ICD-11 codes to and from ICD-10 (links to Zip file; crosswalks in Text and MS Excel formats)

 

6) Orange ICD-11 Maintenance Platform

English: https://icd.who.int/dev11/l-m/en

The audience for this site is the maintainers, contributors and translators of the classification. The content of the Orange browser is not the released version of the classification. The content is updated on a daily basis to incorporate changes approved since the most recent release of the Blue ICD-11 browser for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (MMS).

The Orange Maintenance Platform incorporates the ICD-11 Proposal Mechanism (a proposal and commenting tool for which registration is required). Once an account is registered, new proposals, comments and suggestions for changes and enhancements to existing content can be submitted and notifications set up. For help with submissions see: Maintenance Platform User Guide.

 

Specialty versions and derived classifications

Specialty versions provide more detail for particular user groups, such as Mental Health, Neurology, Dermatology and less detail for primary care or low diagnostic resource settings.

For ICD-11, the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse has developed a companion publication to ICD-11 Chapter 06 for mental health professionals, general clinical, educational and service use.

The Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines for ICD‐11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CDDG) provides expanded disorder descriptions and includes: essential (required) features, severities, boundaries with other disorders and normality, differential diagnoses, additional features and culture-related features.

WHO has given no firm release date but says the CDDG will be published “as soon as possible” following approval of the overall system by the WHA¹.

Also under development is the ICD-11 PHC – a clinical guideline written in simpler language to assist non-mental health specialists, especially primary care practitioners and non medically trained health workers, and for use in low resource settings and low- to middle-income countries with the diagnosis and management of 27 mental disorders. No finalization and publication date is available. Like the ICD-10 PHC (1996), this revised edition will not be a mandatory classification for member states.

1 Reed GM, First MB, Kogan CS, et al. Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders. World Psychiatry. 2019;18(1):3-19.

 

Linkages with other classifications and terminologies

ICD11 incorporates or links with the following classifications and terminologies through the ICD11 Foundation:

• International Classification of Disease for Oncology – ICD-O
• International Classification of External Causes of Injury – ICECI
• International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health – ICF
• International Classification of Primary Care – ICPC [Ed: developed/maintained by WONCA]
• Other terminologies such as OrphaNet and SNOMED-CT

Source: ICD-11 Implementation or Transition Guide, Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019; License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

 

Additional resources:

1 NHS Digital: ICD-11 Coding Tool Overview, September 2018

2 NHS Digital: ICD-11 Browser Overview, September 2018

3 NHS Digital: ICD-11 Overview

4 Presentation: Information session on ICD-11 Dr Robert Jakob, Team Leader, WHO, Geneva, Classifications, Terminologies and Standards, November 2018

5 Presentation: NHS Digital: Clinical Coding for non coders – Brief overview of clinical coding and the role of the Clinical Classifications Service

6 ICD-11: The 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases – Site maintained by eHealth DSI Semantic Community providing resources for ICD-10, ICD-11, ICD derivative classifications and other classification and terminology systems

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Seventy-second World Health Assembly (WHA72) opened Monday, 20 May 2019

May 20, 2019 by

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Update: Draft resolution A72/29 Add.1 (ICD-11) passed without amendments

Item 12.7 Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases was transferred from the Tenth meeting of Committee A to the Sixth meeting of Committee B, for consideration on Saturday 25 May. Item 12.7 was placed as the second agenda item.

Daily Journal N° 6: Programme of meetings for Saturday, 25 May 2019

Following statements from around 30 Member States reps and 1 Non-State actor (IOGT International), and a response from the Secretariat, the draft resolution to adopt the Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases was passed, with no amendments, at 10:20 Geneva time.

After the meeting has closed, a webcast of the meeting will be available for 3 months (Select Tab for Committee B; Select Sixth meeting of Committee B, 25/05/2019 9:00-).

A Draft report of the Sixth meeting of Committee B will be available in the next day or two on the WHA72 Documents page and I shall post a copy at the top of this post.

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The Seventy-second World Health Assembly (WHA72) opened this morning, in Geneva. This year’s Assembly runs from Monday 20 — Tuesday 28 May.

WHA72 website and Documents page

Daily live webcasts

Official Twitter hashtag: #WHA72

“The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.”

 

A Daily Journal is posted each morning (links for the Daily Journals are on the left of the WHA72 website and Documents page).

Daily Journal N° 1 | Programme of meetings for Monday, 20 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 2 | Programme of meetings for Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 3 | Programme of meetings for Wednesday 22 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 4 | Programme of meetings for Thursday, 23 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 5 | Programme of meetings for Friday, 24 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 6 | Programme of meetings for Saturday, 25 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 7 | Programme of meetings for Monday, 27 May 2019

Daily Journal N° 8 | Programme of meetings for Tuesday, 28 May 2019

 

Presentation of ICD-11 MMS for WHA adoption

The Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases is listed as Item 12.7 under Item 12 Other technical matters and is the purview of Committee A.

Item 12.7 is currently expected to be reached on Saturday, 25 May.

Note: Item 12.7 is now 3rd item on Committee A Agenda for Saturday, 25 May. 

Extract Page 5, Daily Journal N° 5:

Live streaming of the Tenth Meeting of Committee A should be available via the webcast page on Saturday 25 May from 9:00 Geneva time. I shall be watching the segment for Item 12.7 when this is reached and will report on any significant discussions, decisions or amendments to the Draft Resolution recommending adoption of the ICD-11 MMS.

(Webcasts for Plenary, Committee A and Committee B meetings will be available for 3 months.)

 

The two key documents for Item 12.7 Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases are:

A72/29 
Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases
Report by the Director-General

and

A72/29 Add.1
Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases
Draft Resolution

 

Draft resolution for consideration by Committee A:

Page 1:

Page 2:

The 72nd Assembly closes on Tuesday, 28 May. Finalization of Committee A resolutions and reports is scheduled for the final day:

 

There are in the region of 55,000 codes in the Eleventh Edition of ICD compared with around 14,400 in ICD-10.

It is anticipated that some Member States and other bodies may continue to raise concerns over specific controversial additions, for example, the inclusion of Gaming disorder. There have also been statements of concern lodged by some Member States regarding the proposed timelines for adoption of ICD-11 and transitional arrangements.

I will update with any significant discussions or amendments to the draft resolution as it currently stands and will post the finalized reports and ICD-11 resolution, when these become available.

 

The Blue ICD-11 MMS platform:

The WHO released a stable version of the ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (ICD-11 MMS) in June 2018 as a pre-implementation version to enable Member States to begin the process of evaluation, consultations, training, translations and preparing for eventual transition to the new edition.

This initial release was replaced with an updated release in December 2018. The December 2018 version was replaced by a further stable release, in April 2019.

The current release is dated Version : 04 / 2019: https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en

It is unclear whether Version : 04 / 2019 is the version being recommended for adoption on Saturday 25 May, or whether the MMS will be updated this week to reflect the most recent content of the Orange Maintenance Platform, then frozen for presentation next Saturday. If WHO does issue a further release of the Blue Platform, this week, I will update this report.

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Draft Resolution for recommendation of adoption and endorsement of ICD-11 at May 2019 World Health Assembly

May 2, 2019 by

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An update on World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board and World Health Assembly (WHA) business:

The 144th Session (EB144) of the World Health Organization Executive Board took place in Geneva between 24 January — 1 February 2019.

Executive Board 144th Session website

“The Executive Board is composed of 34 individuals technically qualified in the field of health, each one designated by a Member State elected to do so by the World Health Assembly. Member States are elected for three-year terms.

“The Board meets at least twice a year; the main meeting is normally in January, with a second shorter meeting in May, immediately after the Health Assembly. The main functions of the Executive Board are to give effect to the decisions and policies of the Health Assembly, to advise it and generally to facilitate its work.”

These January Executive Board meetings generate a considerable number of documents. Documentation is available from this page EB144 Meeting Documents.

Key document for Recommendation for Adoption of ICD-11 at WHA72:

World Health Organization, EXECUTIVE BOARD 144th Session

Provisional agenda item 5.9

EB144/22 12 December 2018

Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases

Report by the Director-General

On p10 (Item 53), the Executive Board was invited to consider a draft resolution.

Below is the document containing the text of the draft resolution with proposed amendments from Member States inserted in bold text:

World Health Organization, EXECUTIVE BOARD 144th Session

Agenda item 5.9

EB144/CONF./9 31 January 2019

Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases

Draft resolution proposed by the Secretariat with amendments from Member States

World Health Assembly

The 72nd World Health Assembly takes place this month, in Geneva, from 20 — 28 May 2019.

“The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.”

72nd World Health Assembly (WHA72)

Documentation page for WHA72

Two key documents for Recommendation for Adoption of ICD-11 at WHA72:

WHO SEVENTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

Provisional agenda item 12.7 

A72/29 4 April 2019

Eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases

Report by the Director-General

Extract:

“1. The Executive Board at its 144th session considered an earlier version of this report,¹ containing a draft resolution.² The Board noted the report but agreed to suspend consideration of the draft resolution so that informal consultations could be held during the intersessional period prior to the Seventy-second World Health Assembly. A separate report will be submitted to provide details of the outcome of the consultations.³”

1 Document EB144/22.
2 See the summary records of the Executive Board at its 144th session, eleventh meeting and twelfth meeting, section 1.
3 Document A72/29 Add.1.

and the revised Draft Resolution on ICD-11:

Provisional agenda item 12.7 

A72/29 Add.111 April 2019

Extract:

“1. In line with the course of action agreed by the Executive Board at its 144th session in January 2019,¹ the Secretariat convened informal consultations during the intersessional period in respect of a draft resolution on the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases. The consultations took place in Geneva on 22 February, 7 March and 21 March 2019. The three sessions enabled the draft resolution to be revised.”

1 Document A72/29.

Should any additional documents relating to the presentation of ICD-11 for recommendation for adoption be posted on the WHA72 documents page I will update this post.

The most recent release of the ICD-11 MMS version for preparation for implementation, Coding tool, Reference Guide and additional materials can be viewed here:

ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (Version : 04 / 2019)

If adopted, endorsement would not come into effect until 1 January 2022.

 

Information session on ICD-11 slides

Document EB144/22 (Report by the Director-General) included a link for slides from a presentation given by Dr Robert Jakob, Team Leader, WHO, Geneva, Classifications, Terminologies and Standards:

Presentation slides (Dr Robert Jakob, November 2018):

Information session on ICD-11

I have been unable to find a transcript or video for this presentation. The slides include an overview of the structure of ICD-11, timelines for preparation for adoption, overview of proposed draft resolution, implementation package, post-endorsement maintenance and update process etc.

Slide 20/31:

Slide #22 notes outcomes of several CSAC and MSAC reviews and decisions, including the decision in November 2018 to retain the ICD-10 G93.3 entities (Postviral fatigue syndrome; Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis; Chronic fatigue syndrome) in the Diseases of the nervous system chapter [1][2]:

Slide 22/31:

References:

1 ICD-11 proposal submitted by Dr Tarun Dua on November 06, 2017; Processed on November 19, 2018

2 WHO’s rejection of Dr Tarun Dua’s proposal of November 06, 2017

3 For status of proposals for PVFS, BME and CFS see Post #350: ICD-11: Recently processed proposals for Postviral fatigue syndrome, ME, CFS; Fatigue; and Bodily distress disorder

and PDF: Recently processed ICD-11 proposals v3

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ICD-11: Recently processed proposals for Postviral fatigue syndrome, ME, CFS; Fatigue; and Bodily distress disorder

April 30, 2019 by

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ICD-11 endorsement

Next month, the World Health Organization (WHO) intends to present a stable version of ICD-11 to the 72nd World Health Assembly for member state endorsement.

The WHO Executive Board will submit a Resolution for adoption of what it describes as a “preparation for implementation” version of the ICD-11 Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (ICD-11 MMS).

#WHA72 Geneva May 22–28, 2019 

Website: SEVENTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

Two key documents:

Provisional Agenda Item 12.7 (A72/29): ICD-11 Report by the Director-General

(A72/29 Add.1): Draft Resolution for adoption of ICD-11

If adopted, endorsement would not come into effect until 1 January 2022.

After that date, member states can begin reporting data using the ICD-11 code sets when their countries have prepared their health systems for transition and implemented the new edition.

There is no mandatory date by which member states must migrate to the new edition and for a period of time, data will be collected and aggregated using both ICD-10 and ICD-11. It’s anticipated that even the earliest implementers will take several years to prepare their countries for transition.

Update and revision

Once endorsed, ICD-11 will be subject to an annual update and revision process, as ICD-10 has been.

Minor changes to content can be considered for incorporation on an annual basis. Major changes would be considered for incorporation on a 5 yearly update cycle.

Responsibility for reviewing and processing proposals now lies with the Medical Scientific Advisory Committee (MSAC) and the Classifications and Statistics Advisory Committee (CSAC), which takes over from the ICD-10 Update and Revision Committee (URC). These committees are working through a backlog of proposals.

The ICD-11 Proposal Mechanism platform will remain online and open to stakeholders for new comments and new submissions for changes, additions and improvements. Submissions for changes will also be received from member states via the WHO-FIC Network.

[See ICD-11 Reference Guide: 3.8 Annex: ICD-11 Updating and Maintenance for information on the ICD-11 update and revision cycle and protocol for submission of new proposals.]

Recently processed proposals

Between February and April, this year, a number of proposals were processed.

These include proposals for Postviral fatigue syndrome, Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis and Chronic fatigue syndrome; proposals for Fatigue (was Malaise and fatigue in ICD-10); and proposals for Bodily distress disorder.

Proposals submitted before March 30, 2017 were supposed to have been reviewed before the end of 2017 for consideration for potential inclusion in the initial release of the ICD-11 MMS — but many of these weren’t processed, despite having met the submission deadline.

Proposals relating to Postviral fatigue syndrome and its inclusion terms were in any case put on hold while an evidence review was undertaken. This review was not completed until late 2018.

This batch of recently processed proposals includes proposals submitted by Suzy Chapman (since 2014); by Suzy Chapman and Mary Dimmock (March 2017); and by Lily Chu MD on behalf of the IACFS/ME (March 2017).

The proposal submitted by the WHO’s Dr Tarun Dua, in November 2017, to delete Postviral fatigue syndrome from the Diseases of the nervous system chapter and reclassify ME/CFS [sic] in the Symptoms, signs chapter as a child under Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of the musculoskeletal system was processed in November 2018.

The WHO rightly rejected Dr Dua’s proposal, in a decision supported by the MSAC and CSAC Committees.

Status of processed proposals at April 15, 2019:

In order to access the ICD-11 Proposal Mechanism registration with the platform is required and the platform is clunky to navigate.

For ease of access, I have created a table which sets out the outcome of these processed proposals for Postviral fatigue syndrome, Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis and Chronic fatigue syndrome; Fatigue; and Bodily distress disorder.

(If you already have v1 or v2 of this document, please replace with v3 below, as this document has been updated to include the approval of an exclusion for PVFS under Fatigue.)

Download PDF Table: Recently processed ICD-11 proposals v3

Extract:

ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (Version : 04 / 2019) version for preparing for implementation as it currently stands:

08 Diseases of the nervous system

8E49 Postviral fatigue syndrome

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