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To: dybdahl who wrote (18349)	7/14/2010 10:14:18 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

If you would regard this as a problem, then SNOMED-CT would be a huge problem. However, it isn't. SNOMED-CT provides a very fine grained coding of information, and if used the right way, the doctor's work gets much easier and statistics improve significantly. That was my point, basically. As an accounting student in college, I spent my summers doing accounting research for a large corporation. Our chart of accounts at the time contained more than 20,000 accounts. The only people who knew how to classify expenses were those who made the same entries every month. For everyone else, it was guesswork. The end result could be compiled into nice, neat financial statements, but the usefulness of the data for management purposes was probably limited by it. Someone could easily code a $10 Million expense to the wrong subdivision and it might well go unnoticed. I'm not arguing against your point I'm just suggesting that your scope on the data might be too limited. The usefulness of data can be limited by not having enough detail but can also be limited by the infamous GIGO.