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released: 31 Oct 2003

Diabetes and its complications are major causes of hospitalisation in Australia. To understand the impact of diabetes on Australia's hospital system it is important to monitor trends in hospital separations for diabetes over time. However, when undertaking such trend analyses, users of hospital morbidity data must be mindful of changes to the Australian Coding Standards that have occurred over time. This paper outlines two recent coding changes and a classification change that affect diabetes data.

ISBN 978 1 74024 330 8; Cat. no. CVD 26; 16pp.; $20.00

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  • Preliminary material
    • Half title page and verso
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Glossary
  • Sections
    • Introduction
    • Change to the additional diagnosis: July 1999
    • Change to the interpretation of a diabetes complication: July 2000
    • Combined effects
    • Differential effects across complications
    • Conclusions
  • End matter
    • Appendix
    • References

Recommended citation

Phillips G 2003. The impact of ICD coding standard changes for diabetes hospital morbidity data. Cat. no. CVD 26. Canberra: AIHW.