Flow of Recording and Reporting of Morbidity and Mortality data-Ethiopian Simplified Version (ESV)-

International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

ESV-ICD 11

Patient/case encounter to a
health facility

Emergency Department
Facility death
Death Notification form
1. Immediate cause INVEA
2. Intermediate cause
3. Underlying cause
Basic recording and reporting tools
1. Patient form/card
2. Emergency register
3. Tally sheet Death Death on arrival
4. Death notification form Verbal autopsy !

1. Open Dx for patient management purposes Tools/options to identify Diagnosis based ESV-ICD
2. ‘Main Dx” for reporting based on ESV-ICD 11, CAPITAL 11 list
LETTER 1. NHDD Mobile pocket
3. Categorization of ‘New’ and ‘Repeat ” based on the
Patient form 2. Printed ESV-ICD 11 editions
definition of the ESV-ICD implementation guideline
4. Single ‘main diagnosis’ 3. ESV-ICD 11 list in other electronic formats (
Clinician 5. Write cause of death ( Immediate, intermediate and Excel, PDF)
underlying) 4. Common disease posted in units based on
6. Death on arrival ESV-ICD 11

Nurse assistant or Clinician 1. “Transcription” of ‘Main Diagnosis’ from patient form/card to 1. Tally from the Emergency register to ESV-ICD 11
Emergency registers tally sheet
2. Copy ‘New’ and ‘Repeat ” status on ‘New’ and ‘Repeat’ 2. Tally only ‘New episodes’ from the register to
columns of the register the tally sheet

Health Information Technician (HIT)