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Table 1 Ranking of research areas in order of importance for administrative data research

From: Identifying priorities in methodological research using ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data: report from an international consortium

Project

Mean score

Number of raters

Priority Rank

Meta-Data documentation

8.4

10

1

Patient safety indicators translation

8.0

10

2

Internal consistency algorithms

7.0

10

3

Interventional studies to enhance coding quality

6.9

10

4

"True" gold standard

6.8

10

5

Travelling coders for comparative recoding

6.8

9

5

Training standards for health records coders

6.4

10

7

International comparisons of predictive model performance (C-statistic)

6.2

10

8

Value of diagnosis-type coding

6.0

9

9

Chart-Database comparison studies

5.9

10

10

International cross-validation of ICD-10 coding algorithms

5.8

10

11

International scan of privacy considerations

5.6

10

12

Learning curve in ICD-10 uptake

5.0

10

13