Each proposal goes through the following states in its lifecycle. You may limit your search results by selecting the states to be included in your search results.
Before becoming visible to the other users of the system, each proposal must be seen and accepted by a moderator. Moderators are users of the system with special access rights to accept or reject the proposals. They check whether the proposal has been entered correctly and whether there is any kind of abuse (such as sending the same or similar proposals many times, etc.). If necessary, they may modify the proposals or request the originator to update or clarify certain points. Moderators are the first level in the control therefore they look at the proposals from a broader perspective and do not have to check the details or scientific validity of the proposal. Moderator role is domain specific. For example, a person can be a moderator of one chapter of ICD but be a regular user for the other parts.
All proposals are moderated with the exception of the proposals that have been sent to closed groups by their members. For example, if a member of the MRG closed group sends a proposal to MRG this will not be moderated and will be automatically visible.
The concept of closed groups is created in the platform to allow starting the work on a proposal in a closed group of experts before opening it up to general discussion. Initial closed groups of our system are Mortality Reference Group (MRG) and the Morbidity Reference Group (MBRG). More groups are expected to be generated for the ICD-11 revision process.
Only members of the groups can submit proposals to the closed groups. Commenting is also limited to the group members. However, the proposals will be visible to other users of the platform.
The administrator of the group decides whether or when to send a proposal to the "open discussion layer". Once this is done, the proposal will be open to comments by other users just like any other proposal.
When a proposal is in the closed group layer, only the administrator of the closed group or the originator of the proposal can modify them.
In this layer the proposals are open for discussion by all users of the platform.
In this layer, editing can only be performed by the originator of the proposal or the Update and Revision Administrators (URC secretariat and WHO ICD officer)
In this layer,
� Commenting can only be done by the General Update and Revision Group members. (Update and Revision Committee (URC) members are members of this group)
� A voting process may be used as a consensus building mechanism. The Voting Members are a subset of General Update and Revision Group Members. There may be one voting member per country and in addition to that the chairs of Reference Groups have voting rights. (See the section Voting )
� In this layer editing can be done by the owner of the proposal (if a member of General Update and Revision Group) or by the Update and Revision Administrators
Proposals may be marked as rejected or deleted at any layer by the users who have privileged access to in the system. The system will not display the rejected or deleted proposals on main proposal lists or in the ICD-10 screen any more. However, they will remain in the system and can be accessed through the Search mechanism. The difference between "rejected" and "deleted" is the following:
� Proposals are marked as rejected if they are rejected after some discussions in the platform
� They are marked as deleted if they do not include any information that might be needed in the future (such as a proposal created for testing the system etc.)
The list on the left displays the users who has submit more than 2 proposals in our system. Selecting a user here will limit the results to only the proposals that are originated by the selected person.