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I will update on the progress of my request for errata/corrigenda for the Peter Denton White paper, to which PDW and key WHO/ICD-11 team members have been copied in, when there has been a significant development. I received several emails yesterday from the Regional Editor, UK & Europe and the...

(I'm not supposed to be posting) but shouldn't that be "a potential subset of PWME"? It's not a given; we don't yet have the evidence that this is a subset of PWME. Jen has both a personal responsibility and a duty of care as co-founder of MEaction. I cannot buy into "It's not her fault if...

In the interests of transparency (two emails sent this morning): Subject: Re: Errors in J Eval Clin Pract. Original Paper: White PD. A perspective on causation of the chronic fatigue syndrome by considering its nosology Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 10:42:53 +0100 From: Suzy Chapman To: Dr Geoffrey...

Copy of the above also at: https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqvgqj I'll be writing to Jakob, Reed, White and the journal editor tomorrow and I will report back on the upshot. But otherwise, I am back in retirement.

As posted in three places on the ICD-11 Orange Maintenance Platform. I shall contact WHO's Dr Jakob and Dr Reed tomorrow, Ccing in the journal editors and PDW...

Just popping up to confirm that White is incorrect. The Fink BDS construct has not been included in the core ICD-11. For the core ICD-11, the WHO has approved the "Bodily distress disorder (BDD)" construct which is strongly aligned with DSM-5's SSD and is differently conceptualised to Fink's...

Popping up from retirement purely to correct a misstatement in this article (with apologies if this has already been corrected within the thread; I did skim the thread, but could not spot one): Guardian article states: "Charles Shepherd is a GP and medical adviser to the ME Association." Dr...

Continued from previous post ICD-11 and the CDDG guideline for mental disorders: For ICD-11, the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse has developed the “Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG) for ICD‐11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders” (an...

Continued from previous post ICD-11: On May 25, 2019, the 72nd World Health Assembly voted unanimously to adopt the ICD-11. The earliest date from which member states can start using the ICD-11 code sets for reporting data is January 1, 2022. Countries are beginning to evaluate the new edition...

Continued from previous post ICD-10-CM: The U.S. uses ICD-10 for reporting mortality and developed a “clinical modification” of ICD-10 (called ICD-10-CM) for morbidity. A new release of ICD-10-CM is posted on the CDC website annually, in June. There are two public NCHS/CDC Coordination and...

PVFS, ME and CFS in classification and terminology systems: notes for the future June 30, 2019 https://dxrevisionwatch.com/2019/06/30/pvfs-me-and-cfs-in-classification-and-terminology-systems-notes-for-the-future/ In 2002, I set up FreeMEuk — a Yahoo Group support and information exchange for...

Continued from previous post Bodily distress disorder in SNOMED CT The SNOMED CT Concept term SCTID: 723916001: Bodily distress disorder was added to the July 2017 release of the SNOMED CT International Edition. SNOMED International’s classification leads confirmed that the term had been...

Continued from previous post: Extract from Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders: Disorders of bodily distress and bodily experience ICD‐11 disorders of bodily distress and bodily experience encompass two disorders: bodily...

New post on my site: Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG) for ICD‐11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders June 28, 2019...

To demonstrate how expansive this new Chronic primary pain category block has become, I've pasted screenshots, below, of all the categories that are "children" under the Chronic primary pain parent block (ie all the terms that display in the Foundation Component hierarchies when all the grey...

As I've probably mentioned earlier in this thread, the original IASP Task Force position paper describes Chronic primary pain as (my emphasis): 2.1. Chronic primary pain Chronic primary pain is pain in 1 or more anatomic regions that persists or recurs for longer than 3 months and is associated...

It was pet hypotheses, also, that resulted in Somatic symptom disorder for DSM-5 and the very similar, Bodily distress disorder for the core ICD-11. The current description text for Fibromyalgia also includes: "Fibromyalgia is characterised by chronic diffuse pain, intense fatigue and sleep...

Off topic, but I had a general anaesthetic in 2012 for a minor op. As I was coming round in the recovery bay in the company of several other recently operated on patients, I heard a nurse repeatedly urging one patient to come round: Come on, Simon, come on, you can wake up now, come on Simon...