The impact of ICD coding standard changes for diabetes hospital morbidity data
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Diabetes seriesDiabetes 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. Authored by Phillips G. Published 31 October 2003; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 330 8; AIHW cat. no. CVD 26; 16pp.; $20.00 Download freeFull publication (159K PDF)
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