European Statistics on Causes of Death – COD Methodological information IRIS: a language independent coding system for mortality data
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Introduction Mortality data are widely used to describe and compare health characteristics between countries. The International Classification of diseases (ICD), published and updated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is used by most countries to code causes of death [OMS92]. ICD is now more than one century old and the last revision of this classification (ICD10), reflecting the increasing knowledge of medicine, is so complex that only classification experts can use it properly.
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