Long Time Coming: ICD-11 Recognizes Stroke as Brain Disorder

So with NOBODY IN CHARGE IN STROKE, it took 13 years after the WHO reclassified stroke in 2006, now a neurological disease not cardiovascular disease.

This is why everybody in stroke needs to be fired. 

So only incompetent for 13 years now. 

Long Time Coming: ICD-11 Recognizes Stroke as Brain Disorder

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Major changes are coming for neurology in ICD-11, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.
Among the 5000 entities covering neurology and neurosurgery in the latest version, a major change is the reclassification of stroke as a disorder of the brain. Since 1955, stroke has been classified as a circulatory disease in the more general category of cardiovascular disease.
Presenting the ICD changes during a presidential symposium here at the XXIV World Congress of Neurology, Raad Shakir, FRCP, of Imperial College London University, United Kingdom, and immediate past-president of the World Federation of Neurology said the reclassification of stroke is predicted to have significant ramifications.
ICD in general is a framework for health information and reporting, used by 194 countries to monitor and track morbidity and mortality, injuries, diseases, epidemics, threats to public health, and disease burden and to assess progress in meeting defined public health goals and obligations. ICD is also a basis for guidelines for care and standards of practice, as well as a means to facilitate research into better treatments and preventive strategies, Shakir said.

Among other advantages, reclassifying stroke as a disease of the brain will allow better tracking of its prevalence and trends in different countries, planning resources, and monitoring progress in achieving public health goals. With an aging population in many countries and increasing risk factors for stroke (eg, lifestyle, pollution), stroke incidence is predicted to double or triple in many regions by 2050.
According to the WHO, besides clinical entities, ICD is used by "health insurers, national health program managers, data collection specialists, and others who track progress in global health and determine the allocation of health resources."

Consistency and Interoperability of ICD-11

ICD-10 has been available in 42 languages, including the six official ones of the WHO. Advantages of ICD-11 are that it is completely electronic and is designed to work in multiple languages and function seamlessly in an electronic health records environment and at the same time be user friendly. All items in ICD-11 have accompanying definitions, which are generally not present in ICD-10.