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What is ICD-10?

ICD-10 is an international classification of diseases of the Tenth revision. It is a regulatory document with the generally accepted statistical classification of medical diagnoses, which is used in health care to unify methodological approaches and international comparability of materials. ICD-10 was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The words “Tenth Revision” means the…

History of ICD-10

Attempts to bring together the names of all diseases, streamline them, summarize the groups were taken in the XVIII century. A special contribution was made by Francois Bose de Lacroix (France). William Farr (England, XIX century), who described the principles of building a unified classification, paid great attention to the issue of generalizing diseases. The…