Fernando Lopes

TL;DR: Age, type of admission, and hospital type were significantly associated with high LOS outliers, and the proportion of high outliers does not seem to be related to their financial coverage; they should be studied in order to highlight areas for further investigation.

TL;DR: The use of standards in health records, audits and physician awareness could increase the quality ofhealth records, contributing to improvements in the qualityof coded data, and in the fulfilment of its purposes (e.g. more accurate payments and more reliable research).

TL;DR: To evaluate a methodology for adverse drug reactions (ADRs) detection through hospital databases, a large number of hospital databases are searched through.

TL;DR: This study aimed to detect and characterize adverse drug reactions that occurred during hospitalization and associated with admission in Portugal from 2000 to 2009 and to compare the results of this methodology with spontaneous reporting.

TL;DR: Some problems were identified and solutions such as the standardization of the documents used for coding an episode, the adoption of the electronic coding, the development of tools to help coding and audits, and the recognition of the importance of coding by the management were described as relevant factors for the improvement of the quality of data.