Several lineari- zations are planned to accommodate various use cases: a joint linearization for mortality and morbidity statistics; two primary care linearizations, for low and high resource settings respectively; and several specialty linearizations, notably for dermatology, ophthalmology and rare ...
The current ICD-10 classification is mono-hierarchical: meaning that every entity can figure only at one point in the classification. The historical rationale for this choice was to avoid double counting, since the ICD is primarily used as a statistical tool. This is a problem however for numer...