Fifteen years of medical encoding in the Diogene HIS.
Obtaining good quality encoded medical information is a major issue for patient documentation, hospital management, and epidemiological statistics. In this paper, the experience of encoding medical information in Geneva since 1978 is described, following 1988 IMIA WG6 recommendations: "There is a need to enhance the involvement of physicians and other health care professionals in the original entry of medical and other relevant data to increase its accuracy and quality".
Borst
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Centre d'Informatique Hospitalière, Hopital Cantonal Universitaire, 1211 Genève 14, Switzerland.
Griesser
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Bourdilloud
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Scherrer
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D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011786:Quality Control; D013557:Switzerland; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled