Doctors don’t treat according to a diagnostic code, but according to clinical situations. Data retrieval on a statistical mass level is going to be easier, but how does that translate into better patient treatment when billing takes longer? When looking into why ICD-10 has been put into ...
To investigate the performance of ChatGPT as an assistant to medical coders using the ICD-10-CM/PCS. Methodology: We conducted a prospective exploratory study between 2023 and 2024 over 6 months. A total of 150 clinical cases coded using the ICD-10-CM/PCS, extracted from technical coding boo...
Modification/Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-CM/PCS), developed by the World Health Organization, has been used in Portugal since January 2017 for the clinical coding of hospital acute care episodes (inpatient and outpatient) and categorized based on All-Patient Diagnosis Related Groups (AP-DRG-...
Sudden cardiac deaths were defined by World Health Organization criteria, for which no obvious non-arrhythmic cause of death was found, including death occurring unexpectedly in a previously stable patient, sudden unexpected death within 1 h of acute symptom onset or worsening of symptoms (if ...