NOMESCO (Nordic Medico-Statistical Committee) is a statistical committee under the

Nordic Council of Ministers The Nordic Council of Ministers is an intergovernmental forum established after the Helsinki Treaty. The purpose of the Nordic Council of Ministers is to complement the Nordic Council and promote Nordic cooperation. Structure The governm ...

. NOMESCO was set up in 1966, following a recommendation by the

Nordic Council The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary Nordic cooperation among the Nordic countries. Formed in 1952, it has 87 representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as from the autonomo ...

. In 1979, the Committee was made a permanent statistical committee with separate funding from the Nordic Committee on Social Policy. Today, the Committee has a permanent secretariat in Copenhagen. The aim of NOMESCO is as follows: 1. To be responsible for the co-ordination of the

health statistics Medical statistics (also health statistics) deals with applications of statistics to medicine and the health sciences, including epidemiology, public health, forensic medicine, and clinical research. Medical statistics has been a recognized branc ...

in the

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, 2. To initiate new projects, partly to improve comparisons of

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

, and partly to ensure the most rational use of Nordic expert knowledge in the field, 3. To inform about Nordic statistical activities, mainly by publishing annual statistics as well as the results of special projects, surveys, etc., 4. To co-ordinate and take part in international statistical collaboration, including activities in the

Baltic Baltic may refer to: Peoples and languages *Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian *Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originatin ...

countries.

NOMESCO procedures

Each procedure is assigned a code. For example, code JN3AE represents abdominal ultrasound examination. Codes are organized into a

hierarchy A hierarchy (from Ancient Greek, Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy ...

. There are 4 levels (0, 1, 2, and 3) defined.

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