title: ICD-11 for quality and safety: overview of the WHO Quality and Safety Topic Advisory Group.
abstract: This paper outlines the approach that the WHO's Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC) network is undertaking to create ICD-11. We also outline the more focused work of the Quality and Safety Topic Advisory Group, whose activities include the following: (i) cataloguing existing ICD-9 and ICD-10 quality and safety indicators; (ii) reviewing ICD morbidity coding rules for main condition, diagnosis timing, numbers of diagnosis fields and diagnosis clustering; (iii) substantial restructuring of the health-care related injury concepts coded in the ICD-10 chapters 19/20, (iv) mapping of ICD-11 quality and safety concepts to the information model of the WHO's International Classification for Patient Safety and the AHRQ Common Formats; (v) the review of vertical chapter content in all chapters of the ICD-11 beta version and (vi) downstream field testing of ICD-11 prior to its official 2015 release. The transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11 promises to produce an enhanced classification that will have better potential to capture important concepts relevant to measuring health system safety and quality-an important use case for the classification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, 3rd Floor TRW University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4Z6. wghali@ucalgary.ca.
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Ghali
authors.forename: Harold A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Pincus
authors.forename: Danielle A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Southern
authors.forename: Susan E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Brien
authors.forename: Patrick S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Burnand
authors.forename: Saskia E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Drösler
authors.forename: Vijaya
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sundararajan
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moskal
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Forster
authors.forename: Yana
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gurevich
authors.forename: Hude
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Quan
authors.forename: Cyrille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Colin
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Munier
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: Brigitta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Spaeth-Rublee
authors.forename: Nenad
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kostanjsek
authors.forename: T Bedirhan
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Ustün
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases / Q000458:organization & administration*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards; D058996:Quality Improvement / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D014944:World Health Organization / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: ICD-11; patient safety; quality; safety