# Presentation: 295300

## Intercod Interactive Learning System 

*Education Committee Meeting*
*M**ay 2006*
*Cassia Maria Buchalla*

## Intercod ICD-10 interactive 

*Interactive Learning System* for the ICD-10
- PanAmerican Health Organization
- Special Program for Health Analysis
-                                2002
*English, Spanish, French and Portuguese*

## Content

- A - Content of the Course
- B - Content *x* Core Curricula
- C - Advantages and Limitations

## A- Content of the InterCodA self applied course on ICD-10

- Menu
**Introduction – 3 sections**
**basic course -  4 sections**
**Coding – 3 sections**
**Evaluation – 14 sections**
- Assistant on the program
- Help

## Introduction 

- Background and importance of the ICD-10
- ICD purpose and applicability
- ICD-10 design
- structure and contents of volume 1,
- volume 2 and
- volume 3

## Basic Course

- Primary forms
- Recording causes of death
- Recording morbidity data
- Death certificate ( adobe acrobat file – copy of death certificates from many countries)

## Coding

- Assigning codes to individual diagnostic terms
- use of volume 1
- use of volume 3
- Selection of the UC of death
- basic concepts of selection
- obtaining the originating antecedent cause

## Coding

- Selection of the UC of death
- modification of the originating antecedent cause
- use of the notes in coding the cause of death
- notes for interpretation of diagnoses of the causes of death from malignant neoplasm [tumors]

## Coding

- Selection of the main condition in Morbidity
- the selection process, basic concepts
- reselection of main condition
- use of the note in codifying morbidity

## Evaluation

- ICD background, importance purpose and applicability
- Structure and contents of volume 1, 2 and 3
- Basic source of data
- Use of volumes 1 and 3
- Process for selecting the UC of death. Basic concepts

## Evaluation

- Acquisition of the originating antecedent cause
- Modification rules
- Use of the notes in coding causes of death
- Use of the notes in malignant neoplasms
- Process for selecting the main condition
- Reselection of the main condition
- Use of the notes in coding morbidity

## Assistant 

- Anatomy
- explanation on the various systems
- Tabular list of categories and subcategories of ICD-10
- Number of codes available and used on the ICD-10
- PAHO/intercod web page in English and Spanish

## Help

- Interface
- Contents
- Navigation
- Evaluation
- Anatomy

## B- Intercod and the core curricula

-      Basic medical science
- anatomy
-  physiology
-  pathology
- Medical terminology
- Prefixes
- Suffixes
- Synonymous

## Intercod and the core curricula

- General uses of Underlying cause of death data
- Specific uses of the UC (uses of coded data for health situation and trends analysis, epidemiological and public health surveillance, health care evaluation )
-  Sources of mortality data (the role of different persons responsible for reporting data on the deceased and the sources of the data)
- The ICD
- How to code (include detailed instruction and practical experience on how to apply the coding rules)
-     Quality assurance techniques – some as checking all data informed

##  C- Intercod - Advantages

- In 4 languages
- Short, clear and direct
- Easy to use
- Windows platform
- Spread in many countries (from Europe to the Americas)

## C- Intercod - limitations

- Suppose people know how to use a computer and have a skill for self learning.
- The 2002 version not yet updated .