Study examines reliability of clinical and pathological diagnoses of Barrett's oesophagus

In a review of more than 2,000 patients coded for Barrett's oesophagus, electronic diagnosis overestimated the prevalence of the disease according to researchers in California. They found that only 61.9 percent of patients assigned a billing diagnosis code for Barrett's oesophagus actually had Barrett's oesophagus after a manual record review. The study evaluated the accuracy of diagnostic codes for Barrett's oesophagus by contrasting codes from electronic databases with diagnoses from a detailed medical record review...

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