👉 Okay, let’s tackle the frankly rather prickly beast that is the admittedly somewhat obscure “7genhosp.
Now, before I get bogged down and maybe bore you with technical jargon, let me just preface this by saying: nobody outside of a very specific corner of statistical pulmonology actually uses that full mouthful anymore. Officially, and in really old textbooks, 7genhosp stood for something wonderfully, almost aggressively complicated. Basically, it meant the seventh generation of anoscopic hospital-based pulmonary morbidity data . (And yes, there was a whole epidemiological systems architect who spent his life painstakingly defining every damn little bit. I shudder even saying the full mouthful again.) Let's unpack that. 1) The 7th...it just sounded fancy. 2) Anoscopic – you were looking into people's lower ends (obviously not in a creepy way, but…you get it). 3) Hospital-based – this was from within the walls of medical institutions. 4) Pulmonary morbidity—fancy word for sicknesses affecting your lungs. Essentially, if you stumbled upon that acronym, you were peering into a massively bureaucratic, probably underfunded, and deeply, profoundly outdated system for tracking how many people with lung-related illnesses spent their time in hospitals. It was the equivalent of meticulously documenting every cough, wheeze, and phlegmy expulsion from 1987 – and then trying to make some kind of
