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Big news from Sweden... :cautious: According to news articles in Psykologtidningen.se and DN.se yesterday, it has been confirmed that the diagnosis exhaustion disorder ("utmattningssyndrom, UMS") is set to be disappeared in Sweden and in WHO ICD-11 in 2028. Utmattningssyndrom försvinner som...

Inspired by our thread on A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies 2023 Wyper et al A DALY weight is used to calculated years lost to disability from a disease. It's an estimate of your percentage of health with a certain...

Abstract Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition from the World Health Organization. In practice this means that milder cases, that may be occurring very...

The COVID-19 pandemic taught us many lessons, including the interconnection between physical and mental health. This observation is not new, however; the intersection of physical and mental health is discussed in early medical writings. At the origins of modern-day psychiatry and neurology...

I got my patient summary today and rather depressingly it states I have "chronic fatigue syndrome" (xa01f). Which the more I learn about the history of the term the more I find outright offensive. So 1 what does "xa01f" mean ? and 2 can I get it changed on my patient record to read severe...

Background Persistent somatic symptoms (PSS) are common in primary care and often accompanied by an increasing disease burden for both the patient and healthcare. In medical practice, PSS is historically considered a diagnosis by exclusion or primarily seen as psychological. Besides...

https://www.meaction.net/2021/08/23/meaction-6-me-orgs-call-for-cdc-to-change-how-it-tracks-me-cfs/

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.06.21256755v2 Abstract Background: Long COVID is a term to describe new or persistent symptoms at least four weeks after onset of acute COVID-19. Clinical codes to describe this phenomenon were released in November 2020 in the UK, but it is not...

Yesterday, the WHO approved my February 2020 proposal for removal of "Benign" from "Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis" for ICD-11. See thread: Updates on status of ICD-11 and changes to other classification and terminology systems Post #443...

This post and several following have been moved from several threads. Edited to insert: This thread is monitoring the progress and outcome of the following: 1 Requests for creating new SNOMED CT Concepts codes for "Post COVID-19 syndrome"; "Long Covid"; Sequelae and late effects of...

This post and the following ones have been moved from this thread. https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/improving-access-to-psychological-therapies-data-set/submit-data-to-the-iapt-data-set-v2.0---from-1-april-2020 Submitting IAPT v2.0 data...

The most recent release of the WHO's ICD-10 online browser is now available. For ICD-10: Version 2019, the term "Benign" has been deprecated. The "Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis" term is now listing as an Index term. The Inclusion term under G93.3 Postviral fatigue syndrome is now specified...

The Danish Health Authorities has just published a guideline on how to code Functional Disorders. ME has previously been included in the term Functional Disorders, but Danish politicians overruled this and decided WHO's definition of ME should be kept. Here are the new codes on functional...

Moderator note: This post has been copied and subsequent posts moved from this thread: Concerns about craniocervical instability surgery in ME/CFS _________________________________ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a such a vague diagnosis that it can cover many things since fatigue is such a common...

I have been trying to get a better understanding of the development of the WHO ICD codes in relation to ME and CFS and although I haven't read it all am finding the document linked to on the Hummingbird site helpful. There is a long and short version. the contents of the long version are...

from Gabby Kleins blog: "A meeting took place on September 11 and 12, 2018 by the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee. On September 12, Donna Pickett discussed a proposal for “chronic fatigue syndrome”. Dr. Lily Chu of the IACFS/ME called in with her approval of NCHS/CDC’s proposal...

ICD-11 Fibromyalgia - MG30.01 Chronic widespread pain

Updates on status of ICD-11 and changes to other classification and terminology systems I've created this thread specifically for reporting on the status of ICD-11 and for updates on changes to other classification and terminology systems. An initial version of ICD-11 is scheduled for release...

ME Association - Forward ME – Meeting with Dr Diane O’Leary about possible WHO coding changes - 21 April 2018 http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2018/04/forward-me-meeting-with-dr-diane-oleary-about-possible-who-coding-changes-21-april-2018/ Forward ME Notes of meeting held on Wednesday 28 March...