Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS
Apr 23, 2025
BACKGROUND: Manual CPT coding from operative notes is a time-intensive process that adds to the administrative burden in healthcare. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising solution, but their accuracy in assigning CPT codes based on full oper...
ICD coding, which involves assigning appropriate ICD codes to clinical notes, is essential for healthcare tasks such as health expense claims, insurance claims, and disease research. Manual ICD coding is time-consuming and prone to errors, increasing...
BACKGROUND: The accuracy of the ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification) procedure coding system (PCS) is crucial for generating correct Taiwan diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), as coding errors can l...
BACKGROUND: The International Classification of Diseases (ICD), developed by the World Health Organization, standardizes health condition coding to support health care policy, research, and billing, but artificial intelligence automation, while promi...
Medical coding involves assigning codes to clinical free-text documents, specifically medical records that average over 3,000 markers, in order to track patient diagnoses and treatments. This is typically accomplished through manual assignments by he...
INTRODUCTION: Original research in radiology often involves handling large datasets, data manipulation, statistical tests, and coding. Recent studies show that large language models (LLMs) can solve bioinformatics tasks, suggesting their potential in...
INTRODUCTION: The Danish Health Care Registers rely on the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)-classification and stand as a widely utilized resource for health epidemiological research. Eating disor...
BACKGROUND: The medical coding of radiology reports is essential for a good quality of care and correct billing, but at the same time a complex and error-prone task.
BACKGROUND: Diagnoses entered by general practitioners into electronic medical records have great potential for research and practice, but unfortunately, diagnoses are often in uncoded format, making them of little use. Natural language processing (N...
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