If the hospitals in the country do not use the ICD standard to classify the diagnosis. I think it will have confusion to collect the data for epidemiological study or reimbursement.
If we do not have any data standard at all, the diagnosis will be confusing and can’t proper categorize for further information. If we use another data standard such as SNOMED CT instead of ICD 10 I think it will be more user-friendly for clinical end-user to key the clinical input but it will make a lot of workloads for people in epidemiology and public health policymaker to grouping the diagnosis that related to each other by medical term.
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