Diagnoses, damned diagnoses and statistics: Dealing with disparate diagnostic coding systems within the New South Wales Emergency Department Data Collection.

Michael M Dinh Saartje Berendsen RussellKendall J Bein

Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2019)

The use of SNOMED-CT in the NSW EDDC has resulted in substantial use of non-specific, duplicate and redundant codes, limiting the capacity of the NSW EDDC to be used for effective data analysis.

Keyphrases

data analysis
emergency department
computed tomography
image quality
dual energy
contrast enhanced
machine learning