The sensitivity of adverse event cost estimates to diagnostic coding error.

Gavin Wardle; Walter P. Wodchis; Audrey Laporte; Geoffrey Anderson; Ross Baker

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The sensitivity of adverse event cost estimates to diagnostic coding error.

December 7, 2011

Wardle G, Wodchis WP, Laporte A, et al. Health Serv Res. 2012;47(3 Pt 1):984-1007.

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This study suggests that diagnostic coding error may significantly underestimate the costs associated with adverse events.

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