Experience of Diagnostic Coding In Irish General Practice: The Practice Perspective
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General practitioners (GPs) and health authorities have integral roles in assessing the needs of their local populations and providing services to meet these needs (Pearson et al, 1996). This requires current information on the incidence and prevalence of disease in general practice, and not surprisingly the demand for this information has increased. In settings such as the UK (CPRD, 2013), Netherlands (NIVEL, 2013), and Australia (Britt et al, 1999) databases of general practice information provide a rich source of population health data. In Ireland, while Abstract
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