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To the Editor.— It is unfortunate that the editor has chosen to link my editorial entitled International Classification of Health Problems in Primary (234:1257, 1975) to the article Ambulatory Care Medical Records by Jackson et al (234:1245, 1975). The implication of this linkage is that I support the Uniform Minimum Basic Data Set as defined by the US National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. The fact is that I believe this data set to be poorly conceived and not very useful in its present form. I have written a detailed critique, which will be published soon in theNew York State Medical Journal. I will, therefore, only briefly comment on the Uniform Minimum Basic Data Set. The Committee designed a data set to be entered into the ambulatory medical record. What was needed was a set of data items that could be abstracted from the medical record. Each
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