REFEROCOD: a probabilistic method to medical coding support.
Choosing diagnosis codes is a non-intuitive operation for the practitioner. Mistakes are frequent with severe consequences on healthcare evaluation and funding. French physicians have to assign a code for everything they do and they are not spared with these kinds of errors. We propose a tool named REFEROCOD to support the medical coding task in order to minimize errors without losing time, by suggesting a list of codes in accordance with the physician activities and of the patient medical context. The proposed method uses probabilistic knowledge and indicates the probability to have a proper diagnosis code considering the realized procedure, age, sex and other information available in the discharge abstract.
Lecornu
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INSTITUT Telecom, Telecom Bretagne UEB, Dpt ITI, Brest, France. Laurent.Lecornu@telecom-bretagne.eu
Thillay
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Le Guillou
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Garreau
P J
PJ
Saliou
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P
Jantzem
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H
Puentes
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Cauvin
J M
JM
D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D005260:Female; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008499:Medical Records; D011336:Probability; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface