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Title: Why Britain has 17,000 pregnant men
Post by: jennysong on April 08, 2012, 08:29:04 AM
Post by: jennysong on April 08, 2012, 08:29:04 AM
GooD Morning
Sorry i can't post the link but you can google this news article "Why Britain has 17,000 pregnant men", The Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-britain-has-17000-pregnant-men/2012/04/06/gIQAC2oJ0S_blog.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-britain-has-17000-pregnant-men/2012/04/06/gIQAC2oJ0S_blog.html)
It is more of a -joke?, maybe not but one thing that is real is noted at the end of the article: "There's been a lot of fighting over whether we should move to the new ICD. Critics say that it's everything that's wrong with American health care: too many codes, too bureaucratic and aggressively regulated. Supporters contend that using the new data will provide more granular information about how we use health care, allowing for better data analysis. One strike against moving to the new system, however, is that it could create a country with a lot more accidentally pregnant men..."
Have a wonderfull Sunday ;)
JennySong
Sorry i can't post the link but you can google this news article "Why Britain has 17,000 pregnant men", The Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-britain-has-17000-pregnant-men/2012/04/06/gIQAC2oJ0S_blog.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-britain-has-17000-pregnant-men/2012/04/06/gIQAC2oJ0S_blog.html)
It is more of a -joke?, maybe not but one thing that is real is noted at the end of the article: "There's been a lot of fighting over whether we should move to the new ICD. Critics say that it's everything that's wrong with American health care: too many codes, too bureaucratic and aggressively regulated. Supporters contend that using the new data will provide more granular information about how we use health care, allowing for better data analysis. One strike against moving to the new system, however, is that it could create a country with a lot more accidentally pregnant men..."
Have a wonderfull Sunday ;)
JennySong
Title: Re: Why Britain has 17,000 pregnant men
Post by: Beverley on April 08, 2012, 08:57:13 AM
Post by: Beverley on April 08, 2012, 08:57:13 AM
This one?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-britain-has-17000-pregnant-men/2012/04/06/gIQAC2oJ0S_blog.html
Rest assured, a wave of male pregnancy has not swept Britain. Instead, researchers studying the data think they're the result of something way more boring: medical coding errors. Mistakes in data entry are, admittedly, a much less exciting development than a rash of pregnant men. But it's one that poses as much of a challenge to modern medicine as a would learning to understand male conception.
Happy Easter Jenny
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-britain-has-17000-pregnant-men/2012/04/06/gIQAC2oJ0S_blog.html
Rest assured, a wave of male pregnancy has not swept Britain. Instead, researchers studying the data think they're the result of something way more boring: medical coding errors. Mistakes in data entry are, admittedly, a much less exciting development than a rash of pregnant men. But it's one that poses as much of a challenge to modern medicine as a would learning to understand male conception.
Happy Easter Jenny
Title: Re: Why Britain has 17,000 pregnant men
Post by: Jamie D on April 10, 2012, 12:46:36 AM
Post by: Jamie D on April 10, 2012, 12:46:36 AM
Sloppy record-keeping. It is a problem, with many, if not most vital statistic and medical databases.