Lack of Agreement in Pediatric Emergency Department Discharge Diagnoses from Clinical and Administrative Data Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 646-652

  Gorelick, Marc H ^a   Knight, Stacey ^a   Alessandrini, Evaline A ^a   Stanley, Rachel M ^a   Chamberlain, James M ^a   Kuppermann, Nathan ^a   Alpern, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

data collection standards; International Classification of Diseases; medical records; reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CODING; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICAL RECORD; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 34250672036     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.03.1357     Document Type: Article

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