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June 3

MED: List of diagnoses added to the ICD-11

This may be a big ask, but there must be a list somewhere of new diagnoses for the ICD-11? WHO have finalised the list, but which are new? Amousey (talk) 12:04, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You can start with the WHO's Transition Guide, a short book available at zero-cost, that helps organizations transition from older systems to the new ICD-11 system. It contains a few short chapters on what is new and why they justify the changes; and they reference lots of additional process documents to help you navigate the specifics.

I do not think you will find a more compact form that lists what has been added and removed.

I am a computer programmer who is, more recently, a very regular reader of legal and other non-technical documents (not to mention, of course, technical-documents other-than-software-source-code); and my colleagues and I often joke about how wonderful it would be if we could convince other intellectual-communities to adopt something akin to unidiff - but frankly, this kind of compact form just doesn't exist in widespread use outside of the domain of computer-software.

With a little bit of tempered reflection, let me just summarize my remarks by stating for the record: the reason why we won't find a compact listing of additions- and subtractions- is because in these domains, such a format would be a misrepresentation. That is why the users of such systems, like ICD-11, publish long-form books and guides, and do not publish "code patches."

At the same time - nothing, other than intellectual integrity, actually precludes an enthusiastic researcher from dumping the entire ICD-10 and ICD-11 content to text, and running "diff"...

Nimur (talk) 17:17, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]