It includes references to existing international standards such as ICD-10, ICD-11, ICF as well as SNOMED CT clinical terminology.
It provides a framework for documenting and organizing clinical data from primary care patient contacts.
The ICPC-3 includes codes for the four key elements of healthcare encounters: The ICPC was developed by the WONCA International Classification Committee (WICC), and was first published in 1987 by Oxford University Press (OUP).
[2] The classification was developed in a context of increasing demand for quality information on primary care as part of growing worldwide attention to global primary health care objectives, including the WHO's target of "health for all".
A subsequent revision which was published in the 1993 publication The International Classification of Primary Care in the European Community: With a Multi-Language Layer is known as ICPC-E.