Classification of Hospital Patients as “Surgical”Implications of the Shift to ICD-9-CM
作者:
Philip Tedeschi,
John Griffith,
期刊:
Medical Care
(OVID Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 3
页码: 189-192
ISSN:0025-7079
年代: 1984
出版商: OVID
关键词: classification
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Using a nearly complete set of hospital discharge abstracts for Michigan in 1980, the authors offer evidence that the shifts in diagnostic and procedure coding (from HICDA-2 to ICD-9-CM) and associated class definitions may have affected both estimates of surgical/nonsurgical use rates and expected lengths of stay of operated versus nonoperated patients as defined using Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities length-of-stay texts.
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