Classifications in Routine Use: Lessons from ICD-9 and ICPM in Surgical Practice | Zendy

Jürgen Stausberg | Zendy; Hans Dietrich Lang | Zendy; U. Obertacke | Zendy; F. Rauhut | Zendy

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Classifications in Routine Use: Lessons from ICD-9 and ICPM in Surgical Practice

Author(s) -

Jürgen Stausberg,

Hans Dietrich Lang,

U. Obertacke,

F. Rauhut

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1136/jamia.2001.0080092

Subject(s) - medicine , clinical practice , german , quality (philosophy) , medical diagnosis , physical therapy , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , pathology , history

Classifications of diagnoses and procedures are very important for the economical as well as the quality assessment of surgical departments. They should reflect the morbidity of the patients treated and the work done. The authors investigated the fulfillment of these requirements by ICD-9 (International Classification of Diseases: 9th Revision) and OPS-301, a German adaptation of the ICPM (International Classification of Procedures in Medicine), in clinical practice.

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