A study of clinical coding accuracy in surgery: Implications for the use of administrative big data for outcomes management

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1096-1107

  Nouraei, S A R ^a,b   Hudovsky, A ^a   Frampton, A E ^c   Mufti, U ^a   White, N B ^d   Wathen, C G ^e   Sandhu, G S ^a   Darzi, A ^f  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Clinical coding; Health informatics; Health resource groupings; Outcome management

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CODING; DATA BASE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENERAL SURGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL CODING; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84946500059     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000851     Document Type: Article

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