title: Collaboration between specialties for respiratory allergies in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-11.
abstract: The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has been grouping the allergic and hypersensitivity disorders involving the respiratory tract under topographic distribution, regardless of the underlying mechanisms, triggers or concepts currently in use for allergic and hypersensitivity conditions. In order to strengthen awareness and deliberate the creation of the new "Allergic or hypersensitivity disorders involving the respiratory tract" section of the ICD-11, we here propose make the building process public.
  
  
  
  The new frame has been constructed to cover the gaps previously identified and was based on consensus academic reports and ICD-11 principles. Constant and bilateral discussion was kept with relevant groups representing specialties and resulted in proposals submission into the ICD-11 online platform.
  
  
  
  The "Allergic or hypersensitivity disorders involving the respiratory tract" section covers 64 entities distributed across five main categories. All the 79 proposals submitted resulted from an intensive collaboration of the Allergy working group, relevant Expert working groups and the WHO ICD governance.
  
  
  
  The establishment of the ICD-11 "Allergic or hypersensitivity disorders involving the respiratory tract" section will allow the dissemination of the updated concepts to be used in clinical practice by many different specialties and health professionals.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Sírio Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil. luciana.tanno@gmail.com.|Division of Allergy, Department of Pulmonology, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, University Hospital of Montpellier, 371, av. du Doyen Gaston Giraud - 34295, Montpellier Cedex, 5, France. luciana.tanno@gmail.com.|Sorbonne Université, UPMC Paris 06, UMR-S 1136, IPLESP, Equipe EPAR, 75013, Paris, France. luciana.tanno@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Luciana Kase
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Tanno
authors.affiliation: Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Imperial College London, National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Moises
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Calderon
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Linzer
authors.affiliation: Co-Chair and Managing Editor, Dermatology Topic Advisory Group, ICD-11 Revision Steering Group, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Robert J G
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Chalmers
authors.affiliation: Division of Allergy, Department of Pulmonology, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, University Hospital of Montpellier, 371, av. du Doyen Gaston Giraud - 34295, Montpellier Cedex, 5, France.
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Demoly
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases / Q000592:standards*; D000070516:Intersectoral Collaboration; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: Allergy; Asthma; Hypersensitivity; International Classification of Diseases (ICD); Respiratory allergies; Rhinitis; World Health Organization (WHO)