Hospital discharge diagnostic and procedure codes for upper gastro-intestinal cancer: how accurate are they?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Population-level health administrative datasets such as hospital discharge data are used increasingly to evaluate health services and outcomes of care. However information about the accuracy of Australian discharge data in identifyin...

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Main Authors: Stavrou Efty, Pesa Nicole, Pearson Sallie-Anne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-09-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/331