Lily Chu, Vice President of the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. America is the only country in the world that doesn't properly classify this disease," said Dr. In the US, CFS is equated to the symptom of chronic fatigue, further obscuring vital prevalence data. doctors have been forced to diagnose either CFS or ME - and they invariably choose chronic fatigue syndrome. In the absence of a code for ME/CFS, there's no way to track its mortality and morbidity or its relationship to Long COVID cases. federal agencies and numerous medical education providers have widely adopted it. The CDC's version of ICD-10 (ICD-10-CM) doesn't have a code for ME/CFS, even though U.S. While the World Health Organization recently released an updated version of its ICD, the U.S. This allows mortality and morbidity data to be consistently coded and tracked. The United States, and much of the world, uses a standardized system called the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to code all diseases in medical records. If the CDC doesn't fix this code, we'll be in dire straits as COVID-19 triggers millions of additional ME/CFS cases." "This collective effort demonstrates consensus and expedience.
with this important new proposal," said Oved Amitay, President and CEO of Solve M.E. "This is an urgent call to action from our organizations. Without action, medical data will continue being mislabeled.
Organizations propose critical code change to CDC'S ICD-10.
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