University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 May 25;294:679-683. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220555.
A crucial process for world-level mortality statistics is the capability to identify the underlying cause of death from death certificates. Currently such certificates are coded using ICD-10. The selection of the underlying cause is done by means of semi-automated rule-based systems. However, starting from 2022, countries should begin to adopt ICD-11, for which no system is already available. The present paper describes the architecture of a novel system for automated UC selection, with classification-independent rules, and its preliminary validation on two sets of death certificates coded with ICD-10 and ICD-11.
对于世界级死亡率统计来说，一个关键的过程是能够从死亡证明中确定根本死因。目前，这些证书使用 ICD-10 进行编码。根本死因的选择是通过半自动化基于规则的系统完成的。然而，自 2022 年起，各国应开始采用 ICD-11，而目前还没有可用的系统。本文介绍了一种新的自动选择 UC 系统的架构，该系统具有独立于分类的规则，并在使用 ICD-10 和 ICD-11 编码的两组死亡证明上进行了初步验证。
