The best way to deal with numerous coding schemes, as well as their versions and sub-versions seems to be: 1. hold an international register of coding scheme, with an ICSI assigned to each one of them 2. always provide the ICSI together with any code mentioned
Regarding the registration of coding scheme, there has been first a European pre-standard for the registration of coding schemes used in health care (ENV1068), implemented in 1995, then subsequently withdrawn when more generic ISO standards have been published. Since, on their turn, these ISO standards have never been implemented, and have been withdrawn, the European standard EN1068 is now about to be reinstated, and provisions are being taken for it to be implemented as soon as it is published (in 2003). Later, it may be extended if necessary to cover the neesds of the rest of the world. Fran?ois Mennerat <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< A 2002-12-22 07:13+1000, Thomas Beale a ?crit : >Karsten Hilbert wrote: > >>>we need to be specific here: what are the attributes? I think that for >>>example ICD10 (version = "10" or are there interim releases?) does not >>Yes, there are. Here in Germany we took a specific (German) >>version of ICD10 and modified it slightly for use in GP practices. >>It is called ICD10-SGBV (the SGBV part points to a book of >>German laws that also deal with health care ...). >ah yes, well we all seem to do that. THere is ICD10CM (clinical >modifications) in the US, ICD10AM (Australian modifications) and so on. >What I meant was - are there interim official releases? I have been told >"no" so far... > >- thomas > > > >- >If you have any questions about using this list, >please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
