More descriptive sub-coding for the source or place of carbon monoxide poisoning would be required for the revision of ICD-11

Received 14 September 2009; accepted 17 September 2009. published online 15 October 2009.

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a Working Group for ICD-11, Education and Research Committee of the Japanese Society of Legal Medicine, Japan

b Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Japan

c Division of Forensic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

d Department of Forensic Medical Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan

e Department of Legal Medicine, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan

f Division of Legal Medicine, Niigata University Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Sciences, Japan

g ICD Office, Department of Statistics and Information, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

h Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Corresponding author. Address: Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1, Ikenobe, Miki, Kita, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan. Tel.: +81 87 891 2140; fax: +81 87 891 2141.

PII: S1344-6223(09)00330-7

doi:10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.09.005

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