Logical Rules and a Preliminary Prototype for Translating Mortality Coding Rules from ICD-10 to ICD-11

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Jun 16:270:297-301. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200170.

Abstract

Iris is a system for coding multiple causes of death in ICD-10 and for the selection of the underlying cause of death, based on a knowledge base composed by a large number of rules. With the adoption of ICD-11, those rules need translation to ICD-11. A pre-project has been carried out to evaluate feasibility of transition to ICD-11, which included the analysis of the logical meta-rules needed for rule translation and development of a prototype support system for the expert that will translate the coding rules.

Keywords: Classifications; ICD-10; ICD-11; ontology mapping.

MeSH terms

  • Cause of Death
  • Clinical Coding*
  • Humans
  • International Classification of Diseases*
  • Knowledge Bases
  • Mortality*
  • Translating*