Valuable insights from morbidity coding in primary care

Tom Fahey¹

Affiliations

Comment

Tom Fahey. BMJ. 2004.

. 2004 May 8;328(7448):1113.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.38084.560475.55. Epub 2004 Apr 23.

Tom Fahey¹

¹ Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee DD2 4AD. t.p.fahey@dundee.ac.uk

No abstract available

Comment on

Influence of socioeconomic deprivation on the primary care burden and treatment of patients with a diagnosis of heart failure in general practice in Scotland: population based study.
McAlister FA, Murphy NF, Simpson CR, Stewart S, MacIntyre K, Kirkpatrick M, Chalmers J, Redpath A, Capewell S, McMurray JJ. McAlister FA, et al. BMJ. 2004 May 8;328(7448):1110. doi: 10.1136/bmj.38043.414074.EE. Epub 2004 Apr 23. BMJ. 2004. PMID: 15107312 Free PMC article.

1. McAlister FA, Murphy NF, Simpson CR, Stewart S, MacIntyre K, Kirkpatrick M, et al. Influence of socioeconomic deprivation on the primary care burden and treatment of patients with a diagnosis of heart failure in general practice in Scotland: population based study. BMJ 2004; - PMC - PubMed
1. Struthers AD, Anderson G, Donnan PT, MacDonald T. Social deprivation increases cardiac hospitalisations in chronic heart failure independent of disease severity and diuretic non-adherence. Heart 2000;83: 12-6. - PMC - PubMed
1. Badgett RG, Lucey CR, Mulrow CD. Can the clinical examination diagnose left-sided heart failure in adults? JAMA 1997;277: 1712-9. - PubMed
1. Davies MK, Hobbs FDR, Davis RC, Kenkre JE, Roalfe AK, Hare R, et al. Prevalence of left-ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure in the echocardiographic heart of England screening study: a population based study. Lancet 2001;358: 439-44. - PubMed
1. Richards H, McConnachie A, Morrison C, Murray K, Watt G. Social and gender variation in the prevalence, presentation and general practitioner provisional diagnosis of chest pain. J Epidemiol Community Health 2000;54: 714-8. - PMC - PubMed