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A O Ree

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PubMed1994

[A table for converting ICD-9 to ICPC. A common platform for health insurance statistics for primary health care and hospitals, outpatient clinics and specialists' practices].

In 1992 Rikstrygdeverket decided that the analysis of billing systems and certificates of illness issued by the primary and secondary health care services should be based on ICPC. All general practitioners are expected to use ICPC-codes. Doctors working in hospitals and other specialists have already used the ICD-9 classification for many years and did not want to have to use two different encoding systems. To obtain a common platform for statistical analysis, a referral system was necessary to convert ICD-9 codes to corresponding ICPC codes. In this article, the head of project discusses the material and methods used in this project, and summarizes the results and the structure and formats of the referral table. The author also briefly discusses the potentials and limitations when diagnostic codes are converted from ICD-9 to ICPC.

Ambulatory Care Facilities↗
PubMed1993

[Vaccination coverage in local and national perspective. Vaccination coverage before and after introduction of a local computerized system in the municipality of Sandefjord].

The author presents the results from an examination in Sandefjord three years before and four years after implementation of a computer-based information system in 1986. The targets for immunization rates are well defined, but the methods for monitoring and calculation of the rates are not satisfactory. The rates seem to be reliable when given for the whole country. The fallacies caused by denominator problems when the rates are calculated for municipalities are discussed. An analysis of immunization rates and reasons for incomplete vaccination in the case of children born during the period 1983 to 1989 has been carried out in Sandefjord, an urban municipality with approximately 36,000 inhabitants. The average immunization coverage against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella (for children aged 2-5 years) showed record levels, i.e. about 97-98% of children for the whole period. The predominant reason for incomplete vaccination was that the parents did not want their child to be exposed to vaccination. In the case of a very few children the vaccination programme was delayed by medical contradictions.

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