"Published by the United States Government in recognition of its responsibility to promulgate this classification throughout the United States for morbidity coding." Complete comparability with International classification of diseases, 9th revision. Recommended for all clinical settings; required for reporting of diagnoses and diseases in all U.S. Public Health Service and Health Care Financing Administration programs. Three volumes consist of tabular list of diseases, alphabetic index of diseases, and tabular list and alphabetic index of procedures.