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The struggle for stroke reclassification

Nature Reviews Neurology volume 14, pages 447–448 (2018)Cite this article

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Stroke has been misplaced in the International Classification of Disease (ICD) since 1955, but is now classed as a neurological disease in the new ICD-11. The reclassification required a bureaucratic struggle between clinicians and the World Health Organization, but will bring great benefits.

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Fig. 1: Data from the European Health Report 2012.

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R.S. is chair of the neurology Topic Advisory Group for the ICD-11 review.

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