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Utility of ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes for Public Health Surveillance
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ICD-9-CM codes have been proposed to be used as adjuncts to existing public health reporting systems and are commonly used for public health surveillance and research purposes. However these codes have been found to have variable… read more… healthcare billing as well as for disease classification due to both coding and physician errors, and these codes … care billing3 as well as for disease classification4 due to both coding and physician errors, and these codes … group and the greater quantity of 5 charts or 20% of all records were selected for each stratum for chart review. …