diagnostic code

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A second classification of ' diarrhoea-associated admissions ' was made if any of these codes were listed as any of the 15 possible diagnostic codes.
From previous attempts to collect data, it was recognised that reference to long lists of diagnostic codes could be a marked impediment to success.
The issue is about more than evaluating the validity of the diagnostic codes reported in administrative database.
The diagnostic codes included in the calculation of these rates are important causes of the observed differences.
These hospitalizations are quite straightforward to categorize, and for many analyses they can probably be attributed to specific diagnostic codes without regard for comorbidities.
Even so, it is likely that the true expenditure of eating disorders was underestimated in the analysis since cases were identified based on diagnostic codes.
Not surprisingly, this study showed that higher age in patients was strongly associated with a larger number of diagnostic codes in a single encounter.
One health insurer had not been referred to the diagnostic codes at all.
For each encounter, a clinician enters diagnoses, to which diagnostic codes are attached.
In 1999/2000 for each discharge only a maximum of 12 diagnostic codes were recorded whereas up to 25 were recorded for the remaining 3 years.
The number of health problems, defined as all problems mentioned in the free text part of the record and/or as diagnostic codes, was determined in each record.
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