LOS ANGELES, California, July 25 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release:

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Reliance on administrative billing codes to track medical conditions can lead to high diagnostic error rates

Relying on billing codes may misclassify up to two-thirds of cases

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Use of billing codes in big data sets to find diagnoses can result in up to two-thirds of cases being mistakenly identified, new UCLA-led research finds.

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