title: Maintenance of self-consistency of coding tables by statistical analysis of word co-occurrences.
abstract: The author presents a method for maintaining the internal consistency of coding tables. The method was tested on a table used for assisting the daily work of indexing clinical cases to International Classification of Diseases. 300 item were tested selected randomly form a corpus of 3082 clinical diagnoses. The method discovered potential consistency problems in 39 cases, out of which 10 were false positive.
authors.affiliation: Haynal Univ. for Health Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Surján
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Héja
mesh_terms: D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled