Hospital discharge diagnostic and procedure codes for upper gastro-intestinal cancer: How accurate are they?

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Stavrou, Efty ^a   Pesa, Nicole ^a,b   Pearson, Sallie Anne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Cancer; Comorbidity; Validation study

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 84866521004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-331     Document Type: Article

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