Nomenclature for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease: the International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code (IPCCC) and the Eleventh Iteration of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11)

• Published in: Cardiology in the young Vol. 27; no. 10; pp. 1872 - 1938
• Main Authors: Franklin, Rodney C. G., Béland, Marie J., Colan, Steven D., Walters, Henry L., Aiello, Vera D., Anderson, Robert H., Bailliard, Frédérique, Boris, Jeffrey R., Cohen, Meryl S., Gaynor, J. William, Guleserian, Kristine J., Houyel, Lucile, Jacobs, Marshall L., Juraszek, Amy L., Krogmann, Otto N., Kurosawa, Hiromi, Lopez, Leo, Maruszewski, Bohdan J., St. Louis, James D., Seslar, Stephen P., Srivastava, Shubhika, Stellin, Giovanni, Tchervenkov, Christo I., Weinberg, Paul M., Jacobs, Jeffrey P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.12.2017
• Subjects: Adults; Cardiology; Cardiovascular disease; Children; Children & youth; Classification; Classification schemes; Congenital diseases; Coronary artery disease; Diagnostic systems; Fetuses; Health; Heart; Heart Defects, Congenital - classification; Heart Defects, Congenital - diagnosis; Heart diseases; Heart surgery; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Hospitals; Humans; International Classification of Diseases - history; Lists; Medicine; Mortality; Nomenclature; Original Articles; Pediatrics; Societies, Medical - standards; Terminology as Topic; World Health Organization; ICD-11; Congenital heart disease; classification; IPCCC; WHO

An internationally approved and globally used classification scheme for the diagnosis of CHD has long been sought. The International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code (IPCCC), which was produced and has been maintained by the International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital H...