Abstract:

Our purpose is to investigate and compare the effect of ICD-11 and ICD-10 disease encoding system, and further investigate the coding effect of ICD-11 and ICD-10 on terms related to diagnosis of diseases with Chinese characteristics in Local Disease Terms and Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) Terms. Compared with ICD-11, ICD-10 has better encoding effect on real world clinical diagnosis, and has a higher level of localization. However, ICD-11 has better performance in the encoding of TCM related disease diagnosis and cancer. The continuous development of Chinese based ICD-11 would be an important basis for the implementation of ICD-11 in practical clinical application. In addition, the new encoding strategy and organization form of ICD-11 provide potential for the enrichment of traditional medicine and the simplification of encoding for cancer.

Key words: ICD-10, ICD-11, disease diagnosis, traditional medicines, encoding capabilities