Clinical Terms, Classifications, and Groupings – what are the relationships?
There are three distinct processes in information handling: terming (SNOMED Clinical Terms), classifiying (ICD-10 and OPCS-4), and grouping (Healthcare Resource Groups). These are often described in terms of granularity. The finest granularity offering the greatest detail for recording patient care is a natural clinical terminology, such as SNOMED Clinical Terms. This will underpin and populate the Electronic Patient Record by providing an essential building block of a common computerised language. A coarser granularity is found at classification level to support statistics and management. Statistical analysis depends on information being consistently recorded and comparable over time. The classification has to be static by nature in order to generate meaningful statistical data for example, even if the name of a concept may change it should not affect the place of the concept in the classification. The coarsest granularity is found at grouping level to support aggregation for costing
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