title: German adaptations of ICD-10.
abstract: The introduction of the ICD-10, published by WHO 1992-94 in English and by DIMDI 1994/95 in German, is a very slow process. Some states introduced ICD-10 for the preparation of statistics of mortality, but only few use it for morbidity. ICD-9 is in Germany only in hospitals still in use. Much effort was put into the improvement of the official ICD-10 and the development of additional aids for more simple and better encoding of diagnoses. Thus a revision especially for ambulatory health care (ICD-10-SGBV with the incorporated ICD-10-Basisschlüssel) and a collection of German terms and expressions of diagnoses that are not at all part of the official ICD-10 (ICD-10-Diagnosenthesaurus) were published. Three years ago a conversion table ICD-9/-10 was developed which can now be harmonised with WHO's Translator. The experiences with all these instruments are satisfying. The development of methods for automatic encoding of free-text phrases of diagnoses has now been started.
authors.affiliation: Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Central Research Institute of Ambulatory Health Care in Germany, Köln, Germany.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Graubner
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brenner
mesh_terms: D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled; D014944:World Health Organization