Nomenclatures, classifications and case-mix: From patient description to abstraction

Christopher G. Chute

doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-930-1-1

Nomenclatures, classifications and case-mix: From patient description to abstraction

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Abstract

Detailed nomenclatures, clinical classifications, and diagnostic related groups lay along a common continuum of patient description, albeit at different levels of abstractions. The intellectual origins of classification, and present challenges of practical terminologies, and a unified potential future are outlined. Today's classifications should be created and published as rule-driven databases, defined from well-formed patient descriptions at a detailed, nomenclature level. Then, analogous to the DRG grouper process, we can realize administrative and resource efficiencies from the detailed encoding of patients, which will enable an era of evidence-based medicine and best-practice as the norm.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Case Mix
Subtitle of host publication	Global Views, Local Actions - Evolution in Twenty Countries
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	1-7
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	1586032178, 9781586032173
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-930-1-1
State	Published - Jan 1 2001
Externally published	Yes
Event	European Federation for Medical Informatics Working Group 1 Conference, EFMI 2001 - Bruges, Belgium Duration: Oct 10 2001 → Oct 14 2001

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Name	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume	86
ISSN (Print)	0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)	1879-8365

Other

Other	European Federation for Medical Informatics Working Group 1 Conference, EFMI 2001
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Bruges
Period	10/10/01 → 10/14/01

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering
Health Informatics
Health Information Management

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Chute, CG 2001, Nomenclatures, classifications and case-mix: From patient description to abstraction. in Case Mix: Global Views, Local Actions - Evolution in Twenty Countries. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 86, IOS Press, pp. 1-7, European Federation for Medical Informatics Working Group 1 Conference, EFMI 2001, Bruges, Belgium, 10/10/01. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-930-1-1

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