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    Language

    English

    Publication Date

    1-1-2005

    Journal

    AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings

    PMID

    16779205

    PMCID

    PMC1560686

    PubMedCentral® Posted Date

    January 2005

    PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

    Post-print

    Abstract

    This project was comparing the accuracy of capturing the oral pathology diagnoses among different coding systems. 55 diagnoses were selected for comparison among 5 coding systems. The results of accuracy in capturing oral diagnoses are: AFIP (96.4%), followed by Read 99 (85.5%), SNOMED 98 (74.5%), ICD-9 (43.6%), and CDT-3 (14.5%). It shows that the currently used coding systems, ICD-9 and CDT-3, were inadequate, whereas the AFIP coding system captured the majority of oral diagnoses. In conclusion, the most commonly used medical and dental coding systems lack terms for the diagnosis of oral and dental conditions.

    Keywords

    Diagnosis, Oral, Humans, Pathology, Oral, Vocabulary, Controlled

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