A preliminary analysis of differences in coded data from Australia and Maryland.

Hospital discharge data from Maryland in the United States have many more diagnosis and procedure codes compared with coded data from Australia. In order to investigate the source of these additional codes, we analysed 4000 records from each country. There were few differences in the two samples for...

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Published in:Health Information Management Journal Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 11p - 12
Main Authors: Reid B, Kelly Z, Westbrook J
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. 2001
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