11-17 October 2014 Barcelona, Spain C&RG SWP Report WHO - FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING 2014 Committee and Reference Group Report for Thursday, 16 October 2014 Title Mortality Reference Group Francesco Grippo and Lars Age Johansson, Co-Chairs Donna L. Hoyert, Secretariat Robert Jakob, WHO Liaison

Promote standard interpretation and application of ICD-10 mortality rules –Resolve new and outstanding coding issues Develop ICD-10 updates for mortality classification purposes –Prepare proposals for submission to URC Enhance mortality knowledge base –Promote development of international software for coding and classification of mortality –Clarify details of mortality coding instructions for automation Develop international core set of quality assurance checks for mortality data –Age and cause consistency checks October 2014 Barcelona, Spain C&RG SWP Report WHO - FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING 2014 Committee and Reference Group Report for Thursday, 16 October 2014 Key Priorities and Deliverables

Continue ICD-10 activities –Updates –Decisions on coding issues ICD-11-related tasks –Adapt international instructions (“Volume 2”) for multiple cause-of-death coding –Adapt international instructions for underlying cause-of-death coding –Adapt international core set of quality assurance checks for mortality data –Provide expertise for field trials and other testing of ICD-11 for mortality Mortality Forum October 2014 Barcelona, Spain C&RG SWP Report WHO - FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING 2014 Committee and Reference Group Report for Thursday, 16 October 2014 Future and Continuing Tasks

Midyear meeting Budapest, Hungary March 2015 (To be confirmed) October 2014 Barcelona, Spain C&RG SWP Report WHO - FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING 2014 Committee and Reference Group Report for Thursday, 16 October 2014 Title