TY - JOUR T1 - Audit: the importances of accurate coding JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - s7 LP - s7 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.2-2-s7 VL - 2 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Kate Laycock AU - Mihaela Piciorea AU - Graham Bothamley AU - Angshu Bhowmik AU - Raja Rajakulasingam AU - Sheena Barnett AU - Manoj Menon Y1 - 2015/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/Suppl_2/s7.abstract N2 - To evaluate the accuracy of clinical coding amongst medical inpatients at a university teaching hospital.Coding is the translation of diagnostic information into alphanumeric codes. Accurate coding not only is important for financial reasons, but also furnishes high-quality data to commissioners and providers to understand the healthcare burden and needs of their local population. A primary diagnosis is coded alongside multiple secondary diagnoses (usually chronic problems). In many hospitals, including ours, coding is generated from the electronic discharge summary (EDS). … ER -