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Mortality Reference Group

Francesco Grippo and Lars Age Johansson, Co-Chairs

Donna L. Hoyert, Secretariat

Robert Jakob, WHO Liaison

• Promote standard interpretation and application of ICD-10 mortality rules– Resolve new and outstanding coding issues

• Develop ICD-10 updates for mortality classification purposes– Prepare proposals for submission to URC

• Enhance mortality knowledge base– Promote development of international software for coding and classification of

mortality – Clarify details of mortality coding instructions for automation

• Develop international core set of quality assurance checks for mortality data– Age and cause consistency checks

11-17 October 2014Barcelona, Spain

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Committee and Reference Group Report for Thursday, 16 October 2014

Key Priorities and Deliverables

• Continue ICD-10 activities– Updates– Decisions on coding issues

• ICD-11-related tasks– Adapt international instructions (“Volume 2”) for multiple cause-of-death

coding– Adapt international instructions for underlying cause-of-death coding– Adapt international core set of quality assurance checks for mortality data– Provide expertise for field trials and other testing of ICD-11 for mortality

• Mortality Forum

11-17 October 2014Barcelona, Spain

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Future and Continuing Tasks

Midyear meetingBudapest, Hungary

March 2015(To be confirmed)

11-17 October 2014Barcelona, Spain

C&RG SWP Report

WHO - FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING 2014

Committee and Reference Group Report for Thursday, 16 October 2014

Title