Reply To: Week 4 Topic 2 Standards

[w.thanachol]

I agree with weerawan.hat that the reason why we use ICD-10 is we can share and compare health information between countries. Physician in each country or medical school would be trained in a different manner and give the diagnosis term differently even the patient have the same diagnosis. ICD-10 is the standard for diagnosis term which can be applied to all health care thus we can share and compare the prevalence of specific disease between hospitals or countries. Unless we cannot count specific disease correctly because there are different terms in the pool of superfluous data.