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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017): Review, Original Articles, Case Reports
A POPULATION-BASED STUDY ON MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES IN THE LAZIO REGION (ITALY), MEDICAL MISCODING AND 11-YEAR MORTALITY FOLLOW-UP: THE GRUPPO ROMANO-LAZIALE MIELODISPLASIE EXPERIENCE OF RETROSPECTIVE MULTICENTRIC REGISTRY
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Received: February 7, 2017
Accepted: June 5, 2017
Accepted: June 5, 2017
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Results on myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) from population-based studies are rare and these data are infrequently collected by cancer registries because diagnostic difficulties and under-reported data.
Our is the first regional Lazio study about medical coding, diagnosis, classification and mortality of MDS patients. This study is aimed at evaluating MDS medical miscoding and conducting a mortality follow-up in a cohort of 644 MDS patients enrolled in the Gruppo Romano-Laziale Mielodisplasie (GROM-L) registry from 2002 to 2010.
We linked the MDS cohort with 2 regional health information systems: the Hospital Information System (HIS) and the regional Mortality Information System (MIS).
About the first objective 92% of the patients had at most 12 hospitalization, but 28.5% of them had no hospitalization with the 238.7 ICD-9-CM. About the second objective we observed 45.5% of death during the follow-up, Myelodysplastic Syndrome was the second cause of death, other frequent causes of death were myeloid leukemia and aplastic anemia.
This study highlights for the first time in Lazio that a disease like MDS, involving many resources for care assistance, tends to be under-documented in the HIS archive. This may be due to the evolution of the disease over the time, the inappropriate use of existing ICD-9-CM and the limitations of current ICD-9-CM classification. Moreover, the most frequent causes of death other than MDS might suggest a miscoding of MDS in the death causes too.
In conclusion our registry could be a useful investigational tool to make a continued surveillance on medical miscoding and collect epidemiological data.
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“A POPULATION-BASED STUDY ON MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES IN THE LAZIO REGION (ITALY), MEDICAL MISCODING AND 11-YEAR MORTALITY FOLLOW-UP: THE GRUPPO ROMANO-LAZIALE MIELODISPLASIE EXPERIENCE OF RETROSPECTIVE MULTICENTRIC REGISTRY” (2017) Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 9(1), p. e2017046. doi:10.4084/mjhid.2017.046.
