Miscoding: A threat to the hospital care system. How to detect it?
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Miscoding: a threat to the hospital care system. How to detect it?
BACKGROUND Artificially influencing the case mix of hospitals may have several deleterious consequences for the hospital care system. One distinguishes over-evaluation (up-coding) and under-evaluation (under-coding) of the case mix. Apart from its financial consequences, miscoding may cause a fracture in epidemiological time series and, by increasing artificially the severity of illness, may af...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revue d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0398-7620
DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2009.02.206