@article{ref1,
title="Methods for ensuring high quality of coding of cause of death. The mortality register to follow Southern Urals populations exposed to radiation",
journal="Methods of information in medicine",
year="2015",
author="Startsev, N. and Dimov, P. and Grosche, B. and Tretyakov, F. and Schüz, J. and Akleyev, A.",
volume="54",
number="3",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: To follow up populations exposed to several radiation accidents in the Southern Urals, a cause-of-death registry was established at the Urals Center capturing deaths in the Chelyabinsk, Kurgan and Sverdlovsk region since 1950. <br><br>OBJECTIVES: When registering deaths over such a long time period, quality measures need to be in place to maintain quality and reduce the impact of individual coders as well as quality changes in death certificates. <br><br>METHODS: To ensure the uniformity of coding, a method for semi-automatic coding was developed, which is described here. Briefly, the method is based on a dynamic thesaurus, database-supported coding and parallel coding by two different individuals. <br><br>RESULTS: A comparison of the proposed method for organizing the coding process with the common procedure of coding showed good agreement, with, at the end of the coding process, 70  - 90% agreement for the three-digit ICD -9 rubrics. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The semi-automatic method ensures a sufficiently high quality of coding by at the same time providing an opportunity to reduce the labor intensity inherent in the creation of large-volume cause-of-death registries.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0026-1270",
doi="10.3414/ME14-01-0101",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME14-01-0101"
}