title: Data quality: not selling ourselves short.
abstract: Routinely coded hospital data ('administrative data') have been criticised as invalid and unreliable, without due regard for how Australian data differ from those of other healthcare systems. The skills and education of coders, degree of professional coding supervision, and the existence and rigour of coding audits all strengthen Australian routine hospital data.
authors.affiliation: University of Melbourne and Northern Clinical Research Centre, The Northern Hospita, Epping, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Terri
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D059019:Clinical Coding / Q000592:standards*; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D063025:Health Information Management / Q000592:standards*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*