ICD-11 2022 release

ICD-11 is now officially in effect for the national and international recording and reporting of causes of illness, death - and more.

11 February 2022
Highlights

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ICD-11 highlights 

  • Conceptual framework independent of language and culture.
  • Multilingual.
  • Integration of terminology and classification.
  • End-to-end digital solution (API, tools, online and offline).
  • Up-to-date scientific knowledge.
  • ICD-11 is accessible to everybody.
  • Open ICD-11 license (distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO license).
  • ICD-11 enables, for the first time, the counting of traditional medicine encounters.
  • Comparable statistics and semantic interoperability - for 150 years.
  • Codes for antimicrobial resistance, in line with Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS).
  • Codes for full documentation of patient safety, in line with the WHO patient safety framework.
  • Integration with functioning and interventions (ICF & ICHI**).

**International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) & International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI)

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WHO is committed to supporting all countries as they move towards implementing and scaling-up ICD-11.
Classifications and Terminologies Unit