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Professional practice and innovation: Level of agreement between coding sources of percentage total body surface area burnt (%TBSA)
- Source :
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Health Information Management Journal . 2011, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p21-24. 4p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The percentage of total body surface area burnt (%TBSA) is a critical measure of burn injury severity and a key predictor of burn injury outcome. This study evaluated the level of agreement between four sources of %TBSA using 120 cases identified through the Victorian State Trauma Registry. Expert clinician, ICD-10-AM, AbbreviatedInjury Scale, and burns registry coding were compared using measures of agreement. There was near-perfect agreement (weighted Kappa statistic 0.81-1) between all sources of data, suggesting that ICD-10-AM is a valid source of %TBSA and use of ICD-10-AM codes could reduce the resource used by trauma and burns registries capturing this information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18333583
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health Information Management Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 104855741
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/183335831104000104