Items for "Diagnostic codes"

We Fill in Our Working Understanding: On Codes, Classifications and the Production of Accurate Data

OBJECTIVES: This paper describes differences in the way general practitioners in Denmark, The Netherlands and Great Britain make codes fit into the local conditions under which they work. METHODS: An ethnographic study method has been used to collect data in Dutch, British and Danish general practices. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The paper argues that what counts as accurate data is locally constructed...

Keywords: Diagnostic codes, classification systems, General Practice, Electronic Patient Record, localization, accuracy, ethnography.