Do coder characteristics influence validity of ICD-10 hospital discharge data?

Administrative data are widely used to study health systems and make important health policy decisions. Yet little is known about the influence of coder characteristics on administrative data validity in these studies. Our goal was to describe the relationship between several measures of validity in...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMC health services research 2010-04, Vol.10 (1), p.99-99, Article 99
Hauptverfasser:	Hennessy, Deirdre A, Quan, Hude, Faris, Peter D, Beck, Cynthia A
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Admission and discharge Canada Codes Colleges & universities Continuing education Datasets Electronic data processing Employment Female Forms and Records Control - standards Health sciences Heart attacks Hospitals Humans Identification documents International Classification of Diseases - standards Interpretation and construction Male Medical policy Medical Records - standards Medical research Methods Middle Aged Part time employment Patient Discharge - statistics & numerical data Reproducibility of Results Research article Retrospective Studies Trends Validation studies Validity
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Zusammenfassung:	Administrative data are widely used to study health systems and make important health policy decisions. Yet little is known about the influence of coder characteristics on administrative data validity in these studies. Our goal was to describe the relationship between several measures of validity in coded hospital discharge data and 1) coders' volume of coding (> or = 13,000 vs.
ISSN:	1472-6963 1472-6963
DOI:	10.1186/1472-6963-10-99