[Correspondences from 10th to 9th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases in the causes of death lists of the National Institute of Statistics and the Regional Health Authority of Murcia in Spain].

Background: Different countries have conducted comparability studies between Revisions 10 and 9 of the International Classification of Diseases for aggregate lists of causes of death. In Spain, the COMPARA project was aimed at evaluating the impact of the revision change.

Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional epidemiological study of 88,048 deaths recorded in Spain in 1999 with the underlying cause of death doubled coded in ICD-9 and ICD-10.