Harmonizing WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF): importance and methods to link disease and functioning
BMC Public HealthPublished 12 August 2013Open access
Reuben Escorpizo, Nenad Kostanjsek, Cille Kennedy, M Nicol, Gerold Stucki, T. Bedirhan Üstün
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The joint use of ICD and ICF could create an integrated health information system that would benefit the implementation of a standard language-based electronic health record to better capture and understand disease and functioning in healthcare.
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The joint use of ICD and ICF could create an integrated health information system that would benefit the implementation of a standard language-based electronic health record to better capture and understand disease and functioning in healthcare.
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