Discordance between physicians and coders in assignment of diagnoses.

Objective: To measure concordance between physicians and medical record coders in their assignment of diagnoses.Design: Prospective cohort series.Setting: Five hundred and fifty-bed, tertiary-care, university teaching hospital. Study participants. In-patients who were discharged from either the Card...

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Published in:International Journal for Quality in Health Care Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 147 - 154
Main Authors: Yao, P, Wiggs, B R, Gregor, C, Sigurnjak, R, Dodek, P
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Apr1999
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