The situation of medical coding and medical economics is quite specific in France. Besides ICD10, two specific terminologies are used: the International Nomenclature of Human and veterinary Medicine (SNOMED International) developed by the College of American Pathologists and CCAM. This work aims at creating and optimizing inter and intra terminology relations between ICD-10 and SNOMED Int. As 9...

BACKGROUND There is little previous information of the effects of size fractioned particulate air pollution and source specific fine particles (PM(2.5); <2.5 microm) on asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among children, adults and the elderly. OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of daily variation in levels of different particle size fractions and gaseous pollutants on as...

Abstract Malnutrition is observed in around one three hospital inpatients; this harmful ICD10-AM-coded disease a strong independent predictor of adverse older adult and healthcare outcomes, mortality, treatment costs globally, particularly multimorbid, adults. Despite recognition malnutrition as disease, nutrition support prescriptions are often not valued the medicine to treat it. This chapter...

BACKGROUND Children's palliative care services are developing. Rational service development requires sound epidemiological data that are difficult to obtain owing to ambiguity in the definitions both of the population who needs palliative care and of palliative care itself. Existing definitions are of trajectory archetypes. The aim of this study was to develop and pilot a directory of the commo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate patterns and trends of adolescent (10-19 years) inpatient activity in England by sex, disease category, and admitting speciality. DATA 9 632 844 Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs) from English patients aged 1-19 between 1999/2000 and 2010/2011 (Hospital Episode Statistics data). ANALYSES Age trends by sex and major International Classification of Disease 10 (ICD10)...

background: different measures of mortality and morbidity statistics is a good tool in determining the health status of a community،the health network development and application of methods of prevention and treatment. basis of mortality data is the death certificate and the most important index in death certificate is accuracy of death causes with who standards and death causes codes in icd10....

Most rare diseases are absent in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) and those with a specific code are often misclassified. As a consequence, morbidity and mortality due to rare diseases is invisible in health information systems. To overcome this difficulty, Orphanet (http://www.orpha.net) has established a partnership with WHO to ensure a fair representation of rare diseases...

The UK government has recently recognised the need to improve mental health services in the country. Electronic health records provide a rich source of patient data which could help policymakers to better understand needs of the service users. The main objective of this study is to unveil statistics of diagnoses recorded in the Case Register of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust...