ICD - 10 mortality coding and the NCIS: A comparative study

Health Information Management Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 11-21

  Daking, Leanne ^a   Dodds, Leonie ^b  

^a National Coroners Information System   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causes of Death; Coroners and medical examiners; Data interpretation; Data quality; ICD 10; Mortality; Statistical

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONER; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34447096205     PISSN: 18333583     EISSN: 18333575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/183335830703600204     Document Type: Review

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