CONCLUSIONS: This database comparison identified hospital stays with discrepancies between the medical database and the billing database. This method allows a better focus on the medical MBDS to be reviewed but must be completed by a thorough analysis of the medical chart. An extension of this methodology to other pathology would be useful to assess the quality of administrative data.
PMID: 18035589 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).