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Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit

Daniel, Priya; Bewick, Thomas; Welham, Sally; McKeever, Tricia M.; Lim, Wei Shen

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Authors

Priya Daniel

Thomas Bewick

Sally Welham

TRICIA MCKEEVER tricia.mckeever@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics

Wei Shen Lim



Abstract

A key objective of the British Thoracic Society national community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) audit was to determine the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalised adults given a primary discharge code of pneumonia but who did not fulfil accepted diagnostic criteria for pneumonia. Adults miscoded as having pneumonia (n=1251) were older compared with adults with CAP (n=6660) (median 80 vs 78 years, p

Citation

Daniel, P., Bewick, T., Welham, S., McKeever, T. M., & Lim, W. S. (2017). Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit. Thorax, 72(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209405

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 24, 2016
Online Publication Date Mar 17, 2017
Publication Date Apr 1, 2017
Deposit Date Jun 16, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Thorax
Print ISSN 0040-6376
Electronic ISSN 1468-3296
Publisher BMJ Publishing Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 72
Issue 4
DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209405
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/853668
Publisher URL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/72/4/376

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