Verification of administrative data to measure palliative care at terminal hospital stays.
Joanne M StubbsHassan AssarehHelen M AchatSally GreenawayPoorani MurugananthamPublished in: Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (2020)
Our results suggest administrative data under-represented in-hospital palliative care, at least partly due to medical record documentation that failed to meet ICD-10-AM coding criteria. Collaboration between clinicians and coders can enhance the quality of records and, consequently, administrative data.