Regardless of the country, coding is vital to research and resource allocation. You ask terrific questions, and ones I have not gotten satisfactory answer to. Putting payment aside and the gaming issues prevalent in USA, I would like to know how Canada, Netherlands, German, etc., get by with a handful of coders to build a regime adequate enough to satisfy researchers, public payers, and an inquiring public. Especially in Nordic countries with great data capture, folks have to maintain a precise database and they are not doing it on a dime with closet's worth of folks at every facility in their system. Or are they?
Questions spurred by Uwe Reinhardt's last healthcare testament
Regardless of the country, coding is vital to research and resource allocation. You ask terrific questions, and ones I have not gotten satisfactory answer to. Putting payment aside and the gaming issues prevalent in USA, I would like to know how Canada, Netherlands, German, etc., get by with a handful of coders to build a regime adequate enough to satisfy researchers, public payers, and an inquiring public. Especially in Nordic countries with great data capture, folks have to maintain a precise database and they are not doing it on a dime with closet's worth of folks at every facility in their system. Or are they?