Coding practice in national and regional kidney biopsy registries

Abstract Background Kidney biopsy registries all over the world benefit research, teaching and health policy. Comparison, aggregation and exchange of data is however greatly dependent on how registration and coding of kidney biopsy diagnoses are performed. This paper gives an overview over kidney bi...

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Main Authors: Amélie Dendooven, Han Peetermans, Mark Helbert, Tri Q. Nguyen, Niels Marcussen, Michio Nagata, Loreto Gesualdo, Agnieszka Perkowska-Ptasinska, Cristina Capusa, Juan M. López-Gómez, Colin Geddes, Myrurgia A. Abdul-Hamid, Mårten Segelmark, Rosnawati Yahya, Mariela Garau, Russell Villanueva, Anthony Dorman, Sean Barbour, Ronald Cornet, Helmut Hopfer, Kerstin Amann, Sabine Leh, On behalf of the Kidney Biopsy Codes for Pathologists project (www.kibico.org)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:BMC Nephrology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-021-02365-3