title: Bias in the coding of hospital discharge data and its implications for quality assessment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine.
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Romano
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Mark
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards; D015982:Bias; D002140:California; D015897:Comorbidity; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000592:standards; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records / Q000145:classification*; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012308:Risk Management / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity