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The global allergy community strongly believes that the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD‐11) offers a unique opportunity to improve the classification and coding of hypersensitivity/allergic diseases via inclusion of a specific chapter dedicated to this disease area to facilitate epidemiological studies, as well as to evaluate the true size of the allergy epidemic...
Hypersensitivity diseases are not adequately coded in the International Coding of Diseases (ICD)‐10 resulting in misclassification, leading to low visibility of these conditions and general accuracy of official statistics. To call attention to the inadequacy of the ICD‐10 in relation to allergic and hypersensitivity diseases and to contribute to improvements to be made in the forthcoming revision...
Background Although efforts to improve the classification of hypersensitivity/allergic diseases have been made, they have not been considered a top-level category in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 and still are not in the ICD-11 beta phase linearization. ICD-10 is the most used classification system by the allergy community worldwide but it is not considered as appropriate...
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