ICPC-2E and Wonca Dictionary of General/Family Practice

Several important and useful publications developed by the Wonca International Classification Committee and its Chair, Professor Niels Bentzen, are available for downloading and/or purchase through the Wonca web at www.GlobalFamilyDoctor.com

The ICPC-2 book published by Oxford University Press in 1998 has been updated to a new version, ICPC-2-E. The changes have been detailed in the April issue of 'Family Practice' in an article by Okkes et al. 'The electronic version of ICPC-2, Fam Pract 2000, 17:101-6. The article about the changes and the list of changes both are copyrighted to WONCA.

ICPC-2-E is an electronic version of the revised and corrected chapters 10 and 11 of the ICPC-2 book. From the moment of its publication in April 2000 this "ICPC-2-E" will serve as the standard for the use of ICPC-2 as a classification system both in electronic systems and in written form. However, chapters 1 to 9 of the book remain indispensable in order to understand the underlying principles and concepts of the classification, and contain information on the additional use of the Severity of Illness Coding (DUSOI/WONCA) and the Functional Status Assessment (COOP/WONCA charts).
The non-commercial user is free to use ICPC-2-E, since it replaces chapters 10 and 11 of the book, but the copyright remains with WONCA, and all rights are reserved and the same conditions apply as apply to the ICPC-2 book.
If the electronic version of chapters 10 and 11 is to be used for commercial purposes or in national/local coding systems, it will be necessary to negotiate with WONCA about user fees. In that case, please contact the CEO of WONCA (wonca@bigpond.com) about an agreement for the use the classification in a commercial computerised medical/health record system or coding system.
The Wonca Dictionary of General/Family Practice is a comprehensive work of more than 20 years in the making by Professor Neils Bentzen. The Wonca Dictionary is available for downloading free from GFD and is published in four languages, English, French, Romanian and Spanish. For further information, please contact Professor Bentzen at 47-7359-8876 (phone), 47-7359-7577 (fax) or niels.bentzen@medisin.ntnu.no (email).