ICD-11 will be presented at the World Health Assembly in May 2019 for adoption by Member States, and will come into effect on 1 January 2022. The ICD team in WHO headquarters received over 10 000 proposals for revisions. They have joined collaborative meetings and submitted proposals. There has been unprecedented involvement of health care workers in the elaboration of this 11th edition of the ICD. The ICD-11 is the result of ten years of work and replaces the previous classification, published 28 years ago, with the intention of offering an updated view of the different health and disease conditions. To do this, the diagnostic terms are converted into around 55 000 unique alphanumeric codes.
The ICD catalogues different pathologies and conditions in order to provide a common language to inform and control their development, as well as comparing and sharing data following standard criteria between hospitals, regions and countries in different time periods. On the 18 June 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
