I am writing with regard to the commentary by Nicholls and colleagues, 1 and the linked
study by Tang and colleagues. 2 Both papers make important observations about the …

Routinely coded hospital data ('administrative data') have been criticised as invalid and
unreliable, without due regard for how Australian data differ from those of other healthcare …

CMAJ| AUGUST 21, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 33 E1055 routinely collected data and
reflects important study components such as methods of selecting the study population; …

Queensland Health (QH) has identified a number of initiatives over recent years to examine
the status of clinical coding and improve the quality of its coded data. One of these initiatives …

It is a pleasure to provide the guest editorial for this Special Issue of the Health Information
Management Journal (HIMJ). The Journal has had a long and interesting history that can be …

Background Administrative health data are increasingly used for research and surveillance
to inform decision-making because of its large sample sizes, geographic coverage …

Barriers to high quality coding of hospital chart information to administrative data: A qualitative
study: IJPDS (2017) Issue 1, Vol 1:022, Proceedings of the IPDLN Conference (August 2016) …

The accuracy of clinical morbidity coding is vitally important for all groups who use the
resulting databases for the purposes of health services research, allocation of funding …

NSW is currently in the process of implementing Episode Based Funding (EBF) in NSW
public hospitals. In late 2009, several hospitals had their first clinical coding audit since …

Background Administrative data are widely used to study health systems and make
important health policy decisions. Yet little is known about the influence of coder …