Quality of diagnostic coding and information flow from hospital to general practice

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 227-234

  Kljakovic, Marjan ^a,c   Abernethy, David ^a   de Ruiter, Ingrid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnostic coding; Electronic health record; Information flow

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEW ZEALAND; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT INFORMATION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 14844325709     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v12i4.130     Document Type: Article

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