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Medical classification - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Appraisal, Assessment, Categorization, Class, Evaluation, Factoring, Family, Genus, Grouping, Identification, Kingdom, Nomenclature, Onomastics, Onomatology, Order, Phylum

Medical classification systems are used for a variety of applications in medicine and medical informatics

  • statistical analysis of diseases and therapeutic actions
  • reimbursement e.g. based on DRGs
  • knowledge-based and decision support systems
  • direct surveillance of epidemic or pandemic outbreaks

List of medical classification systems

This is an incomplete list of classification systems

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