A Response to Daking and Dodds.
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) encourages studies of this nature in order to fully expose the quality of different aspects of mortality coding through use of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10). The ABS has an excellent relationship with the National Coroners Information System (NCIS) and without the valuable information and services provided by NCIS, would be unable to produce mortality data on external causes of death. The ABS has some concerns regarding the methodology used for the study; specifically, it appears that some morbidity coding rules may have been applied for this study, for example for mortality coding in Australia no fifth characters are applied. On 11 April 2007 the ABS published an information paper External Causes of Death data quality, 2005 (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2007), in which a range of issues regarding the quality of ABS external causes mortality data are discussed. The ABS recommends that users of mortality data should avail themselves of the information contained within this paper in order to assist them in interpreting ABS mortality coding. Daking and Dodds recommend continued liaison between a range of stakeholders involved in mortality statistics in order to improve the quality of external causes mortality data. The ABS fully supports this recommendation. The timeliness, quality and comprehensiveness of information on the NCIS database are important factors affecting the quality of ABS external causes of death data. The ABS has commenced a major collaborative effort with coroners (and the NCIS team) to ensure that completed cases can be entered into the NCIS at the coroners’ office more promptly. This collaboration is expected to continue over the next few years, with the aim of identifying and Case Study 3
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia
دوره 36 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007