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Family Practice Vol. 19, No. 5, 433-435
© Oxford University Press 2002

Editorial

The birth of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC) Serendipity at the border of Lac Léman

Henk Lamberts and Maurice Wooda

Department of Family Practice, Academic Medical Centre/ University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and
a Emeritus, Department of Family Practice, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, USA.

Professor Dr H Lamberts, Division of Public Health, Department of Family Practice, Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; E-mail h.lamberts@amc.uva.nl

Lamberts H and Wood M. The birth of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC). Serendipity at the border of Lac Léman. Family Practice 2002; 19: 433–435.

Received 22 April 2002; Accepted 13 May 2002.

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Twenty years ago, in early spring, we were sitting in the Japanese garden of the WHO Headquarters in Geneva. It was the last day of a week of hard work, together with Sue Meads from the US National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS), on the Reason for Encounter Classification. Since 1978, WHO had—with fiscal support from the NCHS—invited us several times to come over and prepare a classification representing patients’ (‘subjective’) demand for care. This seemed important for health care planning, as an addition to data collected with ICD reflecting ‘objective’ patients’ need from a medical perspective. Internationally, the focus of ICD was shifting from mortality towards morbidity, and thus the reasons to visit a doctor became of more interest. The three of us seemed to be rather well equipped for this exercise: two family physicians (FPs) with experience in family practice morbidity statistics, and a taxonomer who, as a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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