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. 2021 Oct:(189):1-29.

Machine Learning for Medical Coding in Healthcare Surveys

Christine A Lucas, Emily Hadley, Robert Chew, Jason Nance, Peter Baumgartner, Rita Thissen, David M Plotner, Christine Carr, Aerian Tatum
  • PMID: 34662269
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Machine Learning for Medical Coding in Healthcare Surveys

Christine A Lucas et al. Vital Health Stat 1. 2021 Oct.
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Abstract

Objectives Medical coding, or the translation of healthcare information into numeric codes, is expensive and time intensive. This exploratory study evaluates the use of machine learning classifiers to perform automated medical coding for large statistical healthcare surveys.

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