Accuracy of automatic syndromic classification of coded emergency department diagnoses in identifying mental health-related presentations for public health surveillance

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liljeqvist, Henning T G ^a,b   Muscatello, David ^a   Sara, Grant ^c,e   Dinh, Michael ^d,e   Lawrence, Glenda L ^b  

^a New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Centre for Population Health   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL CODING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84907914539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-14-84     Document Type: Article

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