Currently, most hospitals use the ICD standard to classify disease diagnosis. What would happen if the hospitals in the country do not use the ICD standard?
Without using ICD standard, Disease name will be vary based on medical officer for example, myocardial infarction and ischemic heart disease. Let assume that those are the same meaning and just different in recording disease. So, There will be two disease name in the database. It will impact in data compilation and will coded like two different diseases . And then, there will be inaccurate conclusion for clinical analysis and decision making. The consequences will be serially endless as impact of not using ICD (uniform) coding name.
