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Revising Main Injury Selection Guidelines in ICD-10: Addressing Multiple Causes of Death

This paper by Margaret Warner, Robert Anderson, Limor Aharonson-Daniel, Cleo Rooney, and Maria Segui Gomez discusses the challenges of selecting a main injury from multiple causes of death, as currently guided by ICD-10. It emphasizes the need for a standardized methodology for ranking injury severity, in response to the WHO Mortality Reference Group's inquiries. The paper addresses current recommendations from the MRG and proposes a new methodology for injury severity ranking, aiming to enhance statistical accuracy in injury reporting.

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Revising Main Injury Selection Guidelines in ICD-10: Addressing Multiple Causes of Death

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  1. Selecting a main injury Margaret Warner Robert Anderson Limor Aharonson-Daniel Cleo Rooney Maria Segui Gomez

  2. Introduction What are the issues? • ICD-10 guidance on selecting a main injury from multiple causes of death is being revised 2) ICE has been asked to provide a ranking of severity of injuries. 3) There is not an agreed upon method to do this….

  3. Topics to be addressed • Who is the WHO Mortality Reference Group and why have they asked ICE on Injury Statistics for guidance… • What are the MRG’s current recommendations for selecting a main injury • What is the ICE on Injury Statistics proposed methodology for ranking severity? • Commentary

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