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Monday, August 30, 2010

What is ICD?

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to classify mortality (death) date from the death certificates. Medical diseases, conditions are converted into ICD codes. The ICD is used to provide a standard classification of diseases for the purpose of health records.

 ICD are only with Number, E Codes, V Codes
 Diseases, Injuries, Impairments, Other health-related problems and their manifestations

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