"Clinical Coding" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Process of substituting a symbol or code for a term such as a diagnosis or procedure. (from Slee's Health Care Terms, 3d ed.)
| Descriptor ID |
D059019
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.452.758.708.200.400.500 N04.452.859.564.274 N05.715.360.300.715.500.249 N06.850.520.308.940.968.249
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| Concept/Terms |
Clinical Coding- Clinical Coding
- Coding, Clinical
- Medical Coding
- Coding, Medical
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Clinical Coding" by people in Profiles.
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The sepsis coding intensity measure: Is this the scalpel that will dissect out illness severity or is it still too blunt for the task? J Hosp Med. 2024 Sep; 19(9):866-867.
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Questioning concomitant cystoscopy coding during hysterectomy in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 12; 223(6):936-937.
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Will We Code for Default ECMO? AMA J Ethics. 2019 05 01; 21(5):E443-449.
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Comparison of Methods for Identification of Pediatric Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in the Virtual Pediatric Systems Database. Crit Care Med. 2019 02; 47(2):e129-e135.
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COUNTERPOINT: Is ICD-10 Diagnosis Coding Important in the Era of Big Data? No. Chest. 2018 05; 153(5):1095-1098.
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Using clinical data to predict high-cost performance coding issues associated with pressure ulcers: a multilevel cohort model. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Apr 01; 24(e1):e95-e102.
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Endoscopic electronic medical record systems. Gastrointest Endosc. 2016 Jan; 83(1):29-36.
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Electronic medical record integration with a database for adult congenital heart disease: Early experience and progress in automating multicenter data collection. Int J Cardiol. 2015 Oct 01; 196:178-82.
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The quest for population-level cancer recurrence data; current deficiencies and targets for improvement. J Surg Oncol. 2015 May; 111(6):657-62.
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Association of the position of a hospital-acquired condition diagnosis code with changes in medicare severity diagnosis-related group assignment. J Hosp Med. 2014 Nov; 9(11):707-13.