TY - JOUR AU - Lamarche-Vadel, Agathe AU - Pavillon, Gérard AU - Aouba, Albertine AU - Johansson, Lars Age AU - Meyer, Laurence AU - Jougla, Eric AU - Rey, Grégoire PY - 2014 DA - 2014/06/05 TI - Automated comparison of last hospital main diagnosis and underlying cause of death ICD10 codes, France, 2008–2009 JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 44 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - In the age of big data in healthcare, automated comparison of medical diagnoses in large scale databases is a key issue. Our objectives were: 1) to formally define and identify cases of independence between last hospitalization main diagnosis (MD) and death registry underlying cause of death (UCD) for deceased subjects hospitalized in their last year of life; 2) to study their distribution according to socio-demographic and medico-administrative variables; 3) to discuss the interest of this method in the specific context of hospital quality of care assessment. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-14-44 DO - 10.1186/1472-6947-14-44 ID - Lamarche-Vadel2014 ER -