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Open AccessThe state of health in the European Union (EU-27) in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019
The European Union (EU) faces many health-related challenges. Burden of diseases information and the resulting trends over time are essential for health planning. This paper reports estimates of disease burden...
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Open AccessBurden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: a sco** literature review
Within the framework of the burden of disease (BoD) approach, disease and injury burden estimates attributable to risk factors are a useful guide for policy formulation and priority setting in disease preventi...
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Open AccessShould we adjust health expenditure for age structure on health systems efficiency? A worldwide analysis
Healthcare expenditure, a common input used in health systems efficiency analyses is affected by population age structure. However, while age structure is usually considered to adjust health system outputs, he...
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Open AccessValidity of the Paediatric Canadian Triage Acuity Scale in a Tertiary Hospital: An Analysis of Severity Markers' Variability
With the increasing influx of patients and frequent overcrowding, the adoption of a valid triage system, capable of distinguishing patients who need urgent care, from those who can wait safely is paramount. He...
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Open AccessMethodological considerations in injury burden of disease studies across Europe: a systematic literature review
Calculating the disease burden due to injury is complex, as it requires many methodological choices. Until now, an overview of the methodological design choices that have been made in burden of disease (BoD) s...
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All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Groups’ (APR-DRGs) Severity of Illness and Risk of Mortality as predictors of in-hospital mortality
The aims of this study were to assess All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Groups’ (APR-DRG) Severity of Illness (SOI) and Risk of Mortality (ROM) as predictors of in-hospital mortality, comparing with Charls...
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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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Open AccessCD73 expression in normal, hyperplastic, and neoplastic thyroid: a systematic evaluation revealing CD73 overexpression as a feature of papillary carcinomas
CD73 converts AMP to adenosine, an immunosuppressive metabolite that promotes tumorigenesis. This study presents a systematic evaluation of CD73 expression in benign, hyperplastic, and neoplastic thyroid. CD73...
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European Union state of health from 1990 to 2017: time trends and its enlargements’ effects
We aimed to study health status’ time trends in the European Union (EU) during 1990–2017 and its enlargements’ impact.
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Problems and Barriers during the Process of Clinical Coding: a Focus Group Study of Coders’ Perceptions
Coded data are the basis of information systems in all countries that rely on Diagnosis Related Groups in order to reimburse/finance hospitals, including both administrative and clinical data. To identify the ...
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Open AccessTrends in the incidence and mortality of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder for the last four decades in the USA: a SEER-based analysis
Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) accounts for around 95% of bladder cancers and is the 4th most common cancer among men and the tenth most common in women, in the US. There is a constant need to clarify curre...
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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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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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Burden of Burns in Brazil from 2000 to 2014: A Nationwide Hospital-Based Study
Burns are a major public health concern, affecting mostly low- and middle-income countries. However, there is a lack of epidemiological studies on burns in these countries, particularly in Latin American count...
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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...
