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2014; IOS Press; Volume: 24; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3233/ves-140516

1878-6464

Alexandre Bisdorff, Newman Toker, Staab, Klaus Jahn, Martín Müller, Michael Strupp, Eva Grill, Robby Vanspauwen, Knoop, Camp, Blaivie, Zarowski, Somers, Offeciers, J. Bradley White, Kara H. Beaton, Dale Roberts, Michael C. Schubert, Patrick Hubner, Serajul I. Khan, Americo A. Migliaccio,

Medical Practices and Rehabilitation

Introduction:The World Health Organisation is in the process of elaborating the eleventh version of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD11), which is projected to be introduced in 2017.ICD is a tool for standardized capture of mortality and morbidity data.It codes health information that is used for statistics and epidemiology, health care management, allocation of resources, monitoring and evaluation, research, primary care, prevention and treatment.Methods: ICD11 will have new aspects like an up to 100 word definition of each disease or disorder, extensive cross linking between various fields due to multiple parenting, meaning that disorders are not considered to "belong" to a particular field or specialty.The Bárány Society's Committee on Classification is actively involved in the development of ICD11 for vestibular disorders.WHO gathers proposals to update ICD from multiple scientific societies in all fields, for vestibular disorders it is the Bárány Society's mission.Later on all proposals undergo an internal WHO review process.Results: The present proposal includes the layered approach to decide first if you deal with an acute, episodic or chronic vestibular syndrome before the actual specific disorder.Exactly the same classification for vestibular disorders can be accessed through the parents of ear and nervous system diseases.It gives the opportunity to include newly recognized disorders and provide updated definitions of diseases.Conclusion: It will be a contribution to ease the coding for vestibular disorders world wide according to modern standards.This should make vestibular disorders more visible to health professionals, politicians and the public.