According to WHO, “ICD serves a broad range of uses globally and provides critical knowledge on the extent, causes and consequences of human disease and death worldwide via data that is reported and coded with the ICD”. Without using ICD standard, health data collected for statistical research might not impact worldwide as we did not use standard code. It might be difficult for data sharing between different organizations as well.
However, from my understanding, there are other standards that can be used instead of ICD in terms of terminology, such as SNOMED-CT, which is also a global standard for health terms and more specific details the diseases, signs and symptoms.
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