[Categorization of clinical findings; reduction of data without loss of information]

Depending on the individual skill of doctors the results of clinical investigations and laboratory findings are weighted differently according to their reliability today. Dealing with medical data the statistical way they have to be handled differently as well depending on the degree of reproducability and thus reliability. The problem of safety and quality of data in medicine is known to every experienced doctor as long as he himself "processes" them, nevertheless data tend to be treated uncritically when "automatically" processed by a computer. A way out of this pitfall is given by standardization of data using check-lists without transfer to any kind of coding-system or thesauri because none of those systems exists today that is capable of regaining the input-informations as they were from the codes.