ICatLinearization
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iCat Linearization
Overview
- Linearization in iCat allows the same entity to be a child of two parents, but only counted as a child of one parent for particular purposes.
- For example, the same code could be used for a particular disease, but have different parents depending on if it is entered for the purpose of morbidity or for mortality.
- This directly affects the way in which statistics are aggregated under particular categories. If there are different parents for morbidity and mortality, then we might have the same code belong to a different category (even chapter) and any incidents of the code would affect the total number of incidents attributed to that category for the pur
