ICD-10-AM and ICD-O
Published: February 2006
A National Cancer Information Work Programme was established in 2003 by the then New Zealand Health Information Service (NZHIS) to improve the completeness, quality, accuracy and currency of data held on the New Zealand Cancer Registry and associated feeder sources such as the Mortality Collection.
As a component of this programme, the Ministry of Health requested the endorsement of ICD-10 AM and ICD-O as national coding standards, allowing for consistent coding of clinical and cancer data. ICD classifications are de facto standards that have been used by the health and disability sector for more than 30 years.
- ICD-10-AM can be found in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and ICD-O Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification
- ICD-O is part of the Internal Classification of Diseases for Oncology produced by the World Health Organisation.
