Stroke has been misplaced in the International Classification of Disease (ICD) since 1955, but is now classed as a neurological disease in the new ICD-11. The reclassification required a bureaucratic struggle between clinicians and the World Health Organization, but will bring great benefits.
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R.S. is chair of the neurology Topic Advisory Group for the ICD-11 review.
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Shakir, R. The struggle for stroke reclassification. Nat Rev Neurol 14, 447–448 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-018-0036-5
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