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The construction and implementation of ICD-11
a brief overview of the field of internal medicine taking diabetes mellitus as an example
2018 Volume 67 Issue 5 Pages 443-451
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2018 Volume 67 Issue 5 Pages 443-451
The beta version of ICD-11, which was intended to integrate the updates of medical sciences, has been recently released. Since internal medicine accounted for a large portion of the whole disesase entities, most of the features of ICD-11 are well reflected in this field. In this paper, I would like to first make a very brief overview of the new characteristics of ICD-11. Then, picking up diabetes mellitus, which is a common chronic disease affecting multiple organs, as one of the prototype disorders of internal medicine, I would discuss the progress and future problems of ICD-11.
