Background: Within the UK, COVID-19 has contributed towards over 103,000 deaths.
Although multiple risk factors for COVID-19 have been identified, using this data to improve …

Background Qualitative work has described the differences in prescribing practice across
medical and surgical specialties. This study aimed to understand if specialty impacts …

Introduction Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) are sub-divided into intrahepatic (iCCA) or
extrahepatic (eCCA). eCCA are further subdivided into perihilar (pCCA) and distal (dCCA) …

Purpose: An observational study using routinely-collected health care data to describe the
extent to which children and young people (CYP) with cerebral palsy (CP) can be identified …

Introduction: Accurate assignment of procedural codes has important medico-legal,
academic, and economic purposes for healthcare providers. Procedural coding requires …

Background: Under-coding of dementia during hospitalisation results in an inability to
identify all patients with dementia using hospital administrative data. Clinical coding can be …

Abstract Background and Aims The World Health Assembly recommends integration of
palliative care into treatment of patients with any life‐limiting condition, yet patients with non …

Hospitals within the UK are paid for services provided by 'Payment-by-Results'. In a system
that rewards productivity, effective collaboration between coders and clinicians is crucial …

Clinical coding, the method by which departments are reimbursed for providing services to
patients, is widely mispractised within the NHS. Improving clinical coding accuracy therefore …

Background We have previously reported incomplete data submission to the Victorian Audit
of Surgical Mortality (VASM) by a large health service. We have further examined the source …