A Systematic Review of Treatment and Quality of Diagnostic Coding and its Influencing Factors in Iran

One of the perennial challenges associated with coding diagnoses and treatment, quality data encryption is. Accuracy, reliability, completeness timed and all the components are coding quality. The aim of this study was to evaluate studies on the quality of diagnostic coding and medical care and its determinants in Iran, respectively.
This study is a systematic review, in which all articles published on the topic in the lower period 1380 to the end of March 1394 (March 2001 to March 2015) were studied. Internet search to find articles in the internal data base Magiran, BarakatKnowladege Network System, Irandoc, SID and external databases, Google scholar, Science Direct and PubMed and was Persian and English keywords. 200 articles published in Farsi and English were retrieved and finally 14 articles were identified and evaluated.
Four paper specifically examines the components of quality of coding, six paper examines the factors affecting coding quality, and the four paper also common for both components and factorsaffecting coding quality were examined. Component coding quality, most studies (seven cases) were examined coding accuracy. The factors affecting coding quality, most studies (five cases) to investigate the role of documentation and diagnosis recording among, respectively.
The results of the study showed that among the components of quality timeliness of coding properties is not desirable. Findings of the study on factors affecting coding quality is the importance of observing principles of documentation on coding quality.