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.
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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)
Related links
- ICD-11 technical content
- Additional information on ICD-11
- Interventions and functioning documentation complementing ICD-11
- Translations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian
- ICD-11 is on Social Media: Facebook & Twitter
WHO is committed to supporting all countries as they move towards implementing and scaling-up ICD-11.
Classifications and Terminologies Unit