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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Forster, Alan J
• Chute, Christopher G
• Pincus, Harold Alan
• Ghali, William A

Titel

ICD-11: A catalyst for advancing patient safety surveillance globally

Ist Teil von

• BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2023-03, Vol.21 (Suppl 6), p.383-383, Article 383

Ort / Verlag

England: BioMed Central Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

SpringerLink (Online service)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The World Health Organization's (WHO) international classification of disease version 11 (ICD-11) contains several features which enable improved classification of patient safety events. We have identified three suggestions to facilitate adoption of ICD-11 from the patient safety perspective. One, health system leaders at national, regional, and local levels should incorporate ICD-11 into all approaches to monitor patient safety. This will allow them to take advantage of the innovative patient safety classification methods embedded in ICD-11 to overcome several limitations related to existing patient safety surveillance methods. Two, application developers should incorporate ICD-11 into software solutions. This will accelerate adoption and utility of software-enabled clinical and administrative workflows relevant to patient safety management. This is enabled as a result of the ICD-11 application programming interface (or API) developed by the WHO. Third, health system leaders should adopt the ICD-11 using a continuous improvement framework. This will help leaders at national, regional and local levels to take advantage of specific existing initiatives which will be strengthened by ICD-11, including peer review comparisons, clinician engagement, and alignment of front-line safety efforts with post marketing surveillance of medical technologies. While the investment to adopt ICD-11 will be considerable, these will be offset by reducing the ongoing costs related to a lack of accurate routine information.