TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Methods for ensuring high quality of coding of cause of death. The mortality register to follow Southern Urals populations exposed to radiation
JO  - Methods of information in medicine
A1  - Startsev, N.
A1  - Dimov, P.
A1  - Grosche, B.
A1  - Tretyakov, F.
A1  - Schüz, J.
A1  - Akleyev, A.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - 54
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0026-1270
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME14-01-0101
ID  - ref1
ER  -