Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-r5zm4 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-05T21:05:00.099Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Comparison of data on drug abuse diagnosed according to ICD-8 and ICD-10, respectively

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

SS Hansen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, University Hospital of Aarhus, Skovagervej 2, DK-8240Risskov, Denmark
G Perto
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, University Hospital of Aarhus, Skovagervej 2, DK-8240Risskov, Denmark
Get access

Summary

Many countries have recently changed to the diagnostic system ICD-10. In Denmark a change from ICD-8 to ICD-10 was carried out in 1994. In the present study it was assessed whether the change in diagnostic system is responsible for a considerable increase in the number of registered drug abusers in the Danish mental hospitals, reported by the National Board of Health in Denmark from 1993 to 1994. Data is extracted from the Danish Psychiatric Case Register, which contains data on all psychiatric admissions in Denmark from 1970 to the present. The results show that it is not possible to follow the development of different kinds of drug abuse from ICD-8 to ICD-10. It is however, possible when setting the right conditions to make longitudinal investigations across the shift from ICD-8 and ICD-10 when estimating the total number of drug diagnoses. It is concluded that comparing data in different diagnostic systems even in different versions of the same system is demanding and that research based on such sources always must be carried out on the basis of a profound evaluation of the selection procedure, the registration principles and the diagnostic system itself. This is recommended not only in the fields of substance abuse but in all studies based on data from different diagnostic systems.

Type
Original article
Copyright
Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs Drug Addiction(EMCDDA) Annual Report on the State of the Drugs Problem in the European Union 1996 European Communities United KingdomGoogle Scholar
Munk-Jørgensen, P, Mortensen, PBThe Danish Psychiatric Register Dan Med Bull 44 1997 8284Google Scholar
Munk-Jørgensen, P, Møller-Madsen, S, Nielsen, S, Nystrup, JIncidence of eating disorders in psychiatric hospitals and wards in Denmark, 1970–1993 Acta Psychiatr Scand 92 1995 9196CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Norusis, MJSPSS/PC+V2.0Base manual for the IBM Pc/XT/AT and PS/2 1988 SPSS Inc ChicagoGoogle Scholar
The National Board of Health Alcohol and Drug Abuse 1995 1995 The National Board of Health CopenhagenGoogle Scholar
Svendsen, SWSecular trends in firstever admission rates of affective disorders in Denmark, 1971–93 Nord Psykiatr Tidsskr 51 1997 119125CrossRefGoogle Scholar
World Health Organization, Glossary of mental disorders and guide to their classification for use in conjunction with the International Classification of Diseases, 8th Revision 1974 World Health Organization GenevaGoogle Scholar
World Health Organization, Nomenclature and classification of drug-and alcohol-related problems: a WHO Memorandum Bull World Health Organization 59 1981 225242Google Scholar
World Health Organization, The ICD-10 classification of mental behavioural disorders. Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines 1992 World Health Organization GenevaGoogle Scholar
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.