4 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a Process Reference Model for Clinical Coding
Coding of medical data is a very important previous step for many activities in Health Care management, since it is the basis for several activities ranging from hospital reimbursement to clinical research
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Problems and Barriers in the Transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS: A Qualitative Study of Medical Coders’ Perceptions
Background. Clinical coding is the process of transforming the information about diseases or procedures recorded in the health records, into numeric or alphanumeric codes, using an international classification s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Miscoding Alerts Within Hospital Datasets: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach
The appropriate funding of hospital services may depend upon grou** hospital episodes into Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). DRGs rely on the quality of clinical data held in administrative healthcare databas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparing Comorbidity Adjustment Scores for Predicting in-Hospital Mortality Using Administrative Data
The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) is a method for classifying comorbidities as a single measure on a scale, based on ICD-9-CM codes over administrative databases. This study aims to compare different varia...
