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World Health Organization (WHO) ICD10 API

The ICD10 API from World Health Organization (WHO) — 4 operation(s) for icd10.

World Health Organization (WHO) ICD10 API is one of 3 APIs that World Health Organization (WHO) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include ICD10. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version v2.6.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api.

4 operations 4 paths 5 schemas 4 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
v2.6.0
Base URL
https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

World Health Organization (WHO) ICD10 API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 1 scope. By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

ICD10 4
GET
/icd/release/10
Lists the available ICD-10 releases
GetICD10Releases 2 params → 200401
GET
/icd/release/10/{code}
Lists the available ICD-10 releases for the requested category
GetAvailableReleasesForICD10Entity 3 params → 200401404
GET
/icd/release/10/{releaseId}
This endpoint returns basic information on the released version of ICD-10 together with the chapters in it
GetICD10Release 3 params → 200401404
GET
/icd/release/10/{releaseId}/{code}
This endpoint returns information on the category together with its children categories
GetICD10Entity 4 params → 200401404

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ICD10Entity (15 properties), TopLevel (8 properties), Term (4 properties), MultiVersion (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ICD10Entity
object
Class representing an ICD-10 Entity
15 properties
TopLevel
object
Shared superclass for Foundation and Linearization top level in API response. Used only for swagger docs.
8 properties
Term
object
Class representing a term with language specific label and optional cross references
4 properties
MultiVersion
object
Class representing available versions of a given classification or classification entity This is used when the request is made without a relase id (or minor ve…
3 properties
LanguageSpecificText
object
Language specific text as used in JSON-LD
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

who-icd10-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs World Health Organization (WHO) publishes across the network.

World Health Organization (WHO) Foundation API
World Health Organization (WHO) Linearization (classification endpoints) API