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A clinical coding recommender system
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020Abstract Clinical coding of hospital admissions can erroneously omit diagnosis and procedure codes. A consequence of these omissions is that the condition and treatment of the patient are not fully captured by the entered codes, which can then also impact hospital revenue.
Mani Suleiman +4 more
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BMJ, 2016
Clinical data to improve clinical care Clinical coding is used to classify the diagnosis and treatment of every inpatient for entry into a national data repository. The data are used for various purposes, mostly administrative. The system relies on the expertise of clinical coders, who extract data from largely unstructured notes using complex rules ...
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Clinical data to improve clinical care Clinical coding is used to classify the diagnosis and treatment of every inpatient for entry into a national data repository. The data are used for various purposes, mostly administrative. The system relies on the expertise of clinical coders, who extract data from largely unstructured notes using complex rules ...
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The increasing importance of clinical coding
British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2008Clinical coding is the process of transforming information about diseases or procedures into a numeric or alphanumeric format. Assigning a code for a specific diagnosis or procedure provides a way of standardizing the recording of clinical information.
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Fertility Clinics: One Code of Practice?
Medical Law International, 1998Since the enactment of the Human Fertility and Embryology Act 1990, Fertility Clinics have been obliged to work within the HFEA guidelines to comply with the requirements of their licences. However the recent media focus on certain aspects of assisted conception calls into question the degree of subjective interpretation that is applied by individual ...
Diane, Savas, Stephen, Treece
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Code of practice for clinical proton dosimetry
Radiotherapy and Oncology, 1991The objective of this document is to make recommendations for the determination of absorbed dose to tissue for clinical proton beams and to achieve uniformity in proton dosimetry. A Code of Practice has been chosen, providing specific guidelines for the choice of the detector and the method of determination of absorbed dose for proton beams only.
S, Vynckier, D E, Bonnett, D T, Jones
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Clinical Documentation, Coding, and Billing
Seminars in Speech and Language, 2006Practitioners must be aware of ever-changing requirements for documentation and correct diagnostic and procedural coding for billing. These requirements are often dependent on the setting, and clinicians who practice in more than one setting have to understand multiple regulations and guidelines.
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Coding Clinical Information: Analysis of Clinicians Using Computerized Coding
Methods of Information in Medicine, 1996AbstractData are presented of a controlled experiment with a computerized browsing and encoding tool. Eighteen practicing clinicians extracted medical concepts from two narrative exercise cases using two approaches, traditional and computer-assisted use of ICD-9.Our results indicate that by using a computerized coding tool the completeness of coding ...
J H, Hohnloser, P, Kadlec, F, Puerner
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