Notes From Standards

Question 1

What does who stand for?

Answer 1

World health organisation

Question 2

What does ICD stand for?

Answer 2

International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems

Question 3

Which edition of Icd?

Answer 3

10th revision 5th edition

Question 4

What is ICD used for?t

Answer 4

Used to translate diagnoses and other health problems from words into alphanumeric codes which permits easy storage retrieval and analysis of data

Question 5

How many volumes of ICD? And name them

Answer 5

Three
Vol 1: tabular list
Vol 2: instruction manual
Vol 3: alphabetical index

Question 6

What is clinical coding

Answer 6

Clinical coding is the translation of medical terminology that describes a patient’s complaint,
problem, diagnosis, treatment or other reason for seeking medical attention into codes that
can then be easily tabulated, aggregated and sorted for statistical analysis in an efficient and
meaningful manner.

Question 7

What are the three dimensions of coding accuracy?

Answer 7

Individual codes
Totality of codes
Sequencing of codes