ICD-10 Chapter XX (V01-Y98)
Definition
The External Causes of Morbidity and Mortality chapter of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. These codes capture the circumstances and mechanism of injury deaths and are used to compute global injury burden statistics. ICD-11 maintains this architecture.
Related terms
- BNSS § 194
- Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 (replacing CrPC § 174). Requires a police inquest for deaths that are sudden,...
- Mechanism of Death
- The physiological derangement through which the cause of death produced the dying process. Examples include exsanguination, asphyxia, sepsis, and cardiac arrhythmia. Multiple...
- NAME Classification
- The National Association of Medical Examiners five-class manner-of-death taxonomy: Natural, Accidental, Suicide, Homicide, and Undetermined. The internationally dominant framework for manner-of-death certification,...
- Open Verdict / Undetermined
- The UK Coroner's conclusion (open verdict, or narrative conclusion) where evidence is insufficient for a more specific conclusion. Functionally equivalent to the...
- Underlying Cause of Death
- The disease or injury that initiated the chain of events that led to death, as defined in the WHO ICD coding conventions....
Explained in
- Cause, Mechanism, Manner and the NAME ClassificationThe External Causes of Morbidity and Mortality chapter of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. These codes capture the circumstances an...