The Quality of Routinely Collected Data: Using the "Principal Diagnosis" in Emergency Department Databases as an Example

Objectives: This paper aims to estimate the reliability of using “principal diagnosis” to identify people with diabetes mellitus (DM), cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Firstnet, the emergency department (ED) module of the NSW Health Electro...

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Main Authors: Liaw, S., Chen, Huei-yang, Maneze, D., Taggart, J., Dennis, S., Vagholkar, S., Bunker, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Health Informatics Society of Australia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36798