The ICD is a coding system for diseases, injuries, and causes of deaths as adopted by the World Health Assembly. The coding system used is defined in the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, 1975, with some minor modifications.
diagnostic codes designed for the classification of morbidity and mortality information for statistical purposes, and for the indexing of hospital records by disease and operations, for data storage and retrieval.
This book lists the codes assigned to each disease or diagnosis, numerically (in Volume 1 and alphabetically in Volume 2). Both medical professionals and benefit industry professionals (like Claims Analysts) use ICD codes, sometimes called diagnosis codes.
The World Health Organisation's Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death. The current version is ICD-10, the 10th Revision.
WHO's internationally accepted classification of death and disease. The ninth revision (ICD-9) is currently in use. In this report, causes of death classified before 1979 under previous revisions have been reclassified to ICD-9 by the Institute.
medical code set maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO). The primary purpose of this code set was to classify causes of death. A US extension, maintained by the NCHS within the CDC, identifies morbidity factors, or diagnoses. The ICD-9-CM codes have been selected for use in the HIPAA transactions.