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Clinical Coding Audit: No coding - No Income - No Hospital. [PDF]

Cureus, 2020
Audit assessing the accuracy of clinical coding by trust guidance on revenue generation.Clinical coding form containing common clinical codes placed at the front of patient notes between July 2014 and August 2014 on a respiratory ward. Medical staff, preferably registrars or consultants, recorded the primary diagnoses and comorbidities on the form ...
White J, Jawad M.
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Transformers for Clinical Coding in Spanish [PDF]

IEEE Access, 2021
Automatic clinical coding is an essential task in the process of extracting relevant information from unstructured documents contained in electronic health records (EHRs). However, most research in the development of computer-based methods for clinical coding focuses on texts written in English due to the limited availability of medical linguistic ...
Guillermo López-García, José M. Jerez, Nuria Ribelles, Emilio Alba, Francisco J. Veredas 0001   +4 more
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Economic impact of switching from partially combined vaccine “Pentaxim® and hepatitis B” to fully combined vaccine “Hexaxim®” in the Malaysian National Immunization Program

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The decision to implement new vaccines should be supported by public health and economic evaluations. Therefore, this study was primarily designed to evaluate the economic impact of switching from partially combined vaccine (Pentaxim® plus ...
Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Lama Al Bashir, Aniza Binti Ismail, Azimatun Noor Aizuddin, S. A. Zafirah Abdul Rashid, Amrizal Muhammad Nur   +5 more
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The miR-28-5p Targetome Discovery Identified SREBF2 as One of the Mediators of the miR-28-5p Tumor Suppressor Activity in Prostate Cancer Cells

Cells, 2020
miR-28-5p is downregulated in some tumor tissues in which it has been demonstrated to have tumor suppressor (TS) activity. Here, we demonstrate that miR-28-5p acts as a TS in prostate cancer (PCa) cells affecting cell proliferation/survival, as well as ...
Sofia Fazio, Gabriele Berti, Francesco Russo, Monica Evangelista, Romina D’Aurizio, Alberto Mercatanti, Marco Pellegrini, Milena Rizzo   +7 more
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Towards automated clinical coding [PDF]

International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2018
Patients' encounters with healthcare services must undergo clinical coding. These codes are typically derived from free-text notes. Manual clinical coding is expensive, time-consuming and prone to error. Automated clinical coding systems have great potential to save resources, and realtime availability of codes would improve oversight of patient care ...
Finneas Catling, Georgios P. Spithourakis, Sebastian Riedel 0001   +2 more
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The development of inpatient cost and nursing service weights in a tertiary hospital in Malaysia

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background The current healthcare sector consists of diverse services to accommodate the high demands and expectations of the users. Nursing plays a major role in catering to these demands and expectations, but nursing costs and service weights are ...
Nor Haty Hassan, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Amrizal Muhammad Nur   +2 more
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Improving clinical coding accuracy [PDF]

The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2010
This audit highlights three main areas of concern under the new Payment by Results system – the inaccurate coding, the overly complex coding system and the inappropriate HRG rating for some procedures. We were, however, disappointed that the authors did not have any intervention to suggest to improve things.
Esmond, Carr, Asha, Pillai
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Potential loss of revenue due to errors in clinical coding during the implementation of the Malaysia diagnosis related group (MY-DRG®) Casemix system in a teaching hospital in Malaysia

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The accuracy of clinical coding is crucial in the assignment of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) codes, especially if the hospital is using Casemix System as a tool for resource allocations and efficiency monitoring.
S. A. Zafirah, Amrizal Muhammad Nur, Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh, Syed Mohamed Aljunid   +3 more
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Premarital HIV testing in Malaysia: a qualitative exploratory study on the views of major stakeholders involved in HIV prevention

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2017
Background HIV screening has existed in numerous methods as an important part of HIV prevention efforts over the years. Premarital HIV testing for couples who wish to marry has been implemented in a number of regions, which often operate in a mandatory ...
Sima Barmania, Syed Mohamed Aljunid
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Real-Time Operative Coding for Endoscopic Sinonasal Procedures: Quality Improvement in Practice

Sinusitis, 2021
Objective: investigate the impact of an intraoperative coding sticker (ICS) on the accuracy of coding in endoscopic sinonasal procedures. Methods: this was a two-cycle audit evaluating the accuracy (and financial impact) of intraoperative coding of ...
Bassem Mettias, Joshua D. Whittaker, Yujay Ramakrishnan   +2 more
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