The
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) is a coding of diseases and signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or diseases, as classified by the
World Health Organization (WHO). The code set allows more than 155,000 different codes and permits tracking of many new
diagnoses and
procedures, a significant expansion on the 17,000 codes available in
ICD-9.
[1]Work on ICD-10 began in 1983 and was completed in 1992.[2]
The following is a List of ICD-10 codes. The version for 2007 is available online at http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/
The United States will begin official use of ICD-10 on October 1, 2013. As Clinical Modification ICD-10-CM for diagnosis coding and Procedure Coding System ICD-10-PCS for inpatient hospital procedure coding. [3]
