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

BACKGROUND: 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 identifying cancer, associated procedures and comorbidity is limi...

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Autores principales: Stavrou, Efty, Pesa, Nicole, Pearson, Sallie-Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22995224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-331