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AB - Allergy NEWS AND COMMENTARIES Surveying the new Allergic and hypersensitivity conditions chapter of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-11 DOI:10.1111/all.12945 Over the last 4 years, a strategic action plan has been put in crowdsourcing the allergy community (4). The frozen ver- practice for a better classification of the allergic and hyper- sion of the ‘Allergic and hypersensitivity conditions’ section sensitivity conditions in the ongoing International Classifica- of the ICD-11 beta draft (May 2015 version) consists of a tion of Diseases (ICD)-11 revision. The actions so far have document of 30 pages including 306 entities following the been unwaveringly acknowledged by the Joint Allergy Acade- WHO ICD content model, scattered under six main head- mies and documented by peer-reviewed publications (1–7). ings (Fig. 1). The audience of this process included top Meanwhile, we started a bilateral collaboration with the experts in different fields of allergy selected on the basis of World Health Organization (WHO) ICD revision their publications over the past 5 years in the major peer- governance. reviewed journals as first/last authors, terminology special- The main outcome of the process was the construction of ists, and end users. It had anonymous and voluntary nat- the ‘Allergic and hypersensitivity conditions’ 
TI - Surveying the new Allergic and hypersensitivity conditions chapter of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)‐11
JO - Allergy
DO - 10.1111/all.12945
DA - 2016-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/surveying-the-new-allergic-and-hypersensitivity-conditions-chapter-of-i0ATso0rqm
SP - 1235
EP - 1240
VL - 71
IS - 9
DP - DeepDyve
ER -