Identifying complications of interventional procedures from UK routine healthcare databases: a systematic search for methods using clinical codes

Conclusions: The four distinct methods identifying complication from codified data offer great potential in generating new evidence on the quality and safety of new procedures using routine data. However the most robust method, using the methodology recommended by the NHS Classification Service, was the least frequently used, highlighting that much valuable observational data is being ignored.
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