ICD-11 for quality and safety: overview of the WHO Quality and Safety Topic Advisory Group.

William A. Ghali; Harold A. Pincus; Danielle A. Southern; Susan E. Brien; Patrick S. Romano; Bernard Burnand; Saskia E. Drösler; Vijaya Sundararajan; Lori Moskal; Alan J. Forster; Yana Gurevich; Hude Quan; Cyrille Colin; William B. Munier; James D. Harrison; Brigitta Spaeth-Rublee; Nenad Kostanjsek; Bedirhan Ustün

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ICD-11 for quality and safety: overview of the WHO Quality and Safety Topic Advisory Group.

January 29, 2014

Ghali WA, Pincus HA, Southern DA, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2013;25(6):621-625.

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This commentary introduces the justifications for and processes being used to expand the current ICD program to map existing safety classification schemes, like the AHRQ common formats and the WHO taxonomy, to augment data collection of hospital-related harm.

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