French hospital discharge database (PMSI) and bacterial resistance: Is coding adapted to hospital epidemiology?

CONCLUSION: The cartography of bacterial infections cannot be developed using the data of the current PMSI coding. These results underline the need to improve the coding of PMSI data for its use as a complementary tool of epidemiological surveillance of bacterial infections. PMID: 29673880 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses - Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Med Mal Infect Source Type: research