ICD stands for?

• A. Indirect Medical Education
• B. International Classification of Diseases
• C. Institute of Medicine
• D. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Answer: (B)

ICD stands for International Classification of Diseases. This is the global standard used to code and categorize diagnoses and other health problems. Maintained by the World Health Organization, ICD provides a comprehensive set of codes for diseases, symptoms, and reasons for encounters, which allows consistent recording, comparison, and analysis of health data across different settings and over time. In practice, clinicians and coders assign ICD codes to patient records to reflect the health issue being treated, and these codes support patient care decisions, public health statistics, research, and reimbursement. In the United States, ICD-10-CM is used for diagnosing, while ICD-10-PCS covers procedures; ICD-11 is the newer revision adopted by many countries. The other options refer to organizations or concepts not related to a standardized disease classification system.