Views of diagnosis distribution in primary care in 2.5 million encounters in Stockholm: a comparison between ICD-10 and SNOMED CT

Views of diagnosis distribution in primary care in 2.5 million encounters in Stockholm: a comparison between ICD-10 and SNOMED CT

<strong>Background</strong> Primary care (PC) in Sweden provides ambulatory and home health care outside hospitals. Within the County Council of Stockholm, coding of diagnoses in PC is mandatory and is done by general practitioners (GPs) using a Swedish primary care version of the Intern...

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Main Authors: Anna Vikström, Mikael Nyström, Hans Åhlfeldt, Lars-Erik Strender, Gunnar Nilsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT 2010-03-01
Series:Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics
Subjects:
Classification
diagnosis
ICD-10
medical records systems computerised
primary care
SNOMED CT
Online Access:http://hijournal.bcs.org/index.php/jhi/article/view/750

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