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I have just removed this paragraph from the article:
| “ | Aside from the updates made for the ICD-11, the WHO has developed an ICD-11 edition of the Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines (CDDG),[1] although it has not yet been published. A book of the same name was released in 1992[2] for the ICD-10, which was also known as the "Blue Book". It contains expanded definitions of and diagnostic criteria for the mental disorders, whereas the ICD-10/-11 mental disorders chapters contain only short summaries. The ICD chapters are meant as a quick reference point, whereas the CDDG is meant for extensive diagnosing by health care professionals. To differentiate the old and the new version, the newest revision is called the ICD-11 CDDG. The WHO described the development of the ICD-11 CDDG as "the most global, multilingual, multidisciplinary and participative revision process ever implemented for a classification of mental disorders", involving nearly 15,000 clinicians from 155 countries.[3] As of February 2024[update], the WHO has not made the ICD-11 CDDG publicly available. | ” |
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In the ICD-10, the number of groupings of disorders was artificially constrained by the decimal coding system used in the classification |
When I first wrote the above paragraph, the ICD-11 contained only brief summaries of mental disorders. For example, see Schizophrenia (6A20) from the 2022 version from the 2021 version. However, I only just discovered that in the 2023 edition (currently the latest), the WHO has added full diagnostic criteria and extensive clinical information to the mental disorder entries, e.g. Schizophrenia (6A20).
So then what was the ICD-11 CDDG supposed to be in the first place? I initially assumed that, similar to the ICD-10 CDDG (the "Blue Book"), it was an expansion of the ICD-11 mental disorder chapter. But then again... the ICD-11 is supposed to be fully digital, unlike the ICD-10, which was first published as books in the 1990s. If the ICD-11 is digital, then why not have the full information within the digital ICD-11? Indeed, this is what the WHO appears to have done now. But then what was the point of announcing a separate ICD-11 CDDG system? That doesn't make sense... unless the ICD-11 CDDG has now been silently incorporated into the ICD-11. Those diagnostic requirements for mental disorders, they *are* the ICD-11 CDDG.
So once again, the WHO has made things convoluted, vague, and unclear. I have removed the paragraph from the article, and replaced it with a short note that, in the 2023 version of the ICD-11, the WHO has added diagnostic criteria and clinical info to the mental disorder entries. Maybe this isn't needed, but I've added it for the sake of completion. Cheers, Manifestation (talk) 14:52, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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