Issues

1
Issues

• Operational definition of injury
• Diagnosis
• Coding frames (ICD-10-AM, ICD-10, ICD-9-CM, etc.)
• Restrictive or inclusive
• Accuracy of coding
• Who codes
• Correspondence between ED and inpatient diagnoses
• Admission fractions
• Stability
• Dependency on
• Demography (eg. older people), comorbidity,
  circmstances
• What approach to estimation when
• Multiple diagnoses
• Multiple attendances for same injuries
• Cases died before arrival or in ED (before
  admission)

2
Small Group Meeting

• I am convening a meeting to discuss some details
  of the PROBABILITY OF ADMISSION project on
• Friday lunchtime - 8 September 115 to 215
• in breakout room ltto be advisedgt
• This will pick up on the issues discussed at this
  session