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- Access to accurate and relevant data is essential for making informed health care decisions aimed at improving the health of individuals and populations.
- New technologies allow for the reuse of this data, yet uniform standards, particularly in terminology, are crucial for effective data utilization.
- The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) offers a conceptual framework for understanding functioning and disability data, but additional coordinated efforts are needed to develop formal terminology standards in this area.
Article Abstract
Achieving goals of healthy people and populations is dependent on available and relevant data for health care decisions. New technologies enable reuse of data for decisions, however it is clear that uniform data standards and in particular standards around terminological data will be required to achieve reuse. Terminological data related to functioning and disability presents unique challenges because of the conceptual ambiguity within the field. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) provides a clarifying conceptual foundation for functioning and disability data, but is not structured as a formal terminology. The need for a concerted and coordinated effort is emphasized.
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