Assessment of the reproducibility of clinical coding in routinely collected hospital activity data: A study in two hospitals

Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom)

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-69

  Dixon, Jennifer ^a   Sanderson, Colin ^a   Elliott, Paul ^a,c   Walls, Peter ^a,b   Jones, Jeremy ^a,d   Petticrew, Mark ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coding; hospital episode statistics; quality; survey

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CODING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMUR FRACTURE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; LONDON; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATE MEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0031981075     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024721     Document Type: Article

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