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Healthcare burden of rare diseases in Hong Kong – adopting ORPHAcodes in ICD-10 based healthcare administrative datasets

BACKGROUND: The burden of rare diseases is important for healthcare planning but difficult to estimate. This has been facilitated by the development of ORPHAcodes, a comprehensive classification and coding system for rare diseases developed by the international consortium Orphanet, with cross-refere...

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Autores principales: Chiu, Annie Ting Gee, Chung, Claudia Ching Yan, Wong, Wilfred Hing Sang, Lee, So Lun, Chung, Brian Hon Yin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6114034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30153866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13023-018-0892-5