A classification of diseases and related things is essential for such measurement. For more than a century, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has been the main basis for comparable statistics on causes of death and non-fatal disease [1, 2]. The 10th revision (ICD-10) was ...
These include Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder, in which there is a prolonged and debilitating response to a loved one's death characterized by intense longing and preoccupation, reactive distress, and disrupted sense of identity. The ICD-11 (World Health Organization, 2020) system, much like...
There are few truer snapshots of a country’s wellbeing than its health statistics. While broad economic indicators such as Gross Domestic Product may skew impressions of individual prosperity, data on disease and death reveal how a population is truly faring. ...
ICD is used to report and summarize an episode of care after the event. Data recorded on many types of medical information and other records, including death certificates, provides the basis for analyses of national mortality and morbidity statistics by WHO member states, which are used to inform...
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have traditionally been used in patients who survived, or have a high risk of experiencing, a sudden cardiac death event. More recently, indications have been expanded to include patients who have had asymptomatic nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, for ...
and other stressful events compared to the Lithuanian sample. In turn, Lithuanians have experienced more school change, moving to another country, one or both parents/foster parents moving to live in another country, death of a close family member, illness of a close family member, the birth ...