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Francesco Gongolo and Ulrich Vogel – Co-Chairs

Lori Moskal and Paula Tonel – Secretariat

Francesco Gongolo and Ulrich Vogel – Co-Chairs

Lori Moskal and Paula Tonel – Secretariat

Update and Revision Committee 2014 annual report

Update and Revision Committee 2014 annual report

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Purpose of URC:– support WHO and WHO-FIC Network in keeping the WHO

Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC) Reference Classifications (RF) up to date in line with current knowledge.

Functions:– current RF: ICD-10 and ICF

• Developing update policy, update coordination & decision making;• Delivering update documents to be published on WHO websites.

– ICD-11 Revision• Identification of issues of synchronization and transition of updating ICD-

10 with/to revising ICD-11 and updating URC policy;

URC in 2013/2014: TORsURC in 2013/2014: TORs

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Membership:– Voting members;– Observers.

Co-chairs: – Joint responsibility for reference classifications;– Update of URC part of WHO-FIC Strategic Work Plan.

Secretariat– Moderator of the ICD-10 and ICF Update Platform;– Reports of Committee activity and official update documents for submission to

WHO.

Results of elections for URC Co-chairs– ICD-10: to be updated after the election on Sunday 12, 2014– ICF: to be updated after the election on Sunday 12, 2014

URC membership and rolesURC membership and roles

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URC Strategic Work Plan (SWP)URC Strategic Work Plan (SWP)

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Annual updates 2013– 121 recommendations ratified at the 2013 Beijing Annual Meeting, for updating

the ICD-10 and 40 recommendations for updating the ICF;– Deliverance of annual and cumulated update documents to WHO for 2013

updates in due time.

Restructuring of the content of the ICF update platform in coordination with FDRG;

Update of URC SWP;

URC submission process 2014– ICD-10: 38 prop. f. discussion, 35 accepted under reserv. of final approval, none

rejected prior– ICF: 8 prop. f. discussion, 5 accepted under reserv. of final approval, 22 rejected

prior

Key Achievements in 2013/2014Key Achievements in 2013/2014

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Issues for discussion and decision at the 2014 annual meeting:– Major Update of ICD-10 in 2019;

– Updating ICD-O-3 references in ICD-10 (tabular and/or index);

– Implementation of the ICF Updates

Participation in the revision work:– Developing a transition strategy from updating ICD-10 to further updates

of ICD-11 by the URC once ICD-11 has been approved by the World Health Assembly (WHA)

– Considering options and limitations of adopting ICD-11 content into future ICD-10 Major Updates to facilitate transition from one revision to the other

Establishing a URC share point for documents

Outstanding IssuesOutstanding Issues