POSITIVE EFFICIENCY FINDINGS USING COMPUTER-ASSISTED ICD-ENCODING - 3,5 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH THE COMPUTERIZED PATIENT RECORD SYSTEM PADS (PATIENT ARCHIVING AND DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM)
Jh. Hohnloser et H. Soltanian, POSITIVE EFFICIENCY FINDINGS USING COMPUTER-ASSISTED ICD-ENCODING - 3,5 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH THE COMPUTERIZED PATIENT RECORD SYSTEM PADS (PATIENT ARCHIVING AND DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1994, pp. 965-966
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Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Medicine Miscellaneus","Computer Science Information Systems
In daily routine there is a major discrepancy between what physicians
do and what they document. From a medical information processing point
of view amongst the more important functions physicians perform in th
eir daily routine is the encoding of diagnoses using a standard vocabu
lary such as ICD-9. This paper presents evidence that through the use
of the ICD-encoding module of a computerized patient record system (PA
DS, Patient Archiving and Documentation System) user compliance can be
improved. ''Bypassing'' mechanisms can be partly reversed (up to 43%)
, more coded diagnoses are documented (by 51 %) and those diagnoses do
cumented are more complete (increase by 57 %).