Author/Authors :
Gupta, Saurabh Department of Plastic Surgery - Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER) - Puducherry, India , Chittoria, Ravi Kumar Department of Plastic Surgery - Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER) - Puducherry, India , Chavan, Vinayak Department of Plastic Surgery - Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER) - Puducherry, India , Aggarwal, Abhinav Department of Plastic Surgery - Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER) - Puducherry, India , Reddy, Chirra Likhitha Department of Plastic Surgery - Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER) - Puducherry, India , Mohan, Padmalakshami Bharathi Department of Plastic Surgery - Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER) - Puducherry, India , Shijina, K Department of Plastic Surgery - Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER) - Puducherry, India , Pathan, Imran Department of Plastic Surgery - Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research (JIPMER) - Puducherry, India
Abstract :
BACKGROUND
There is need for a coding system for categorizing the plastic surgery
conditions to facilitate efficient data exchange, retrieval, research,
time-series analysis, clinical audit, insurance and legal purposes.
This is a pilot study to assess feasibility of newly proposed 5-D
coding system in categorizing the plastic surgery conditions.
METHODS
Retrospective analysis of records of plastic surgery patients
visited in last 15 months was done. Each patient was assigned
a code according to the newly proposed 5-D system of coding
and recorded in excel sheet. Data analysis was done to categorize
various plastic surgery conditions. Results of analysis were shown
to 11 plastic surgeons and their feedback was taken.
RESULTS
Feedback taken from participants showed 5-D coding system
was useful and practically easy to categorize the plastic surgery
conditions.
CONCLUSION
Proposed new 5-D coding system is easy and useful in
categorization of plastic surgery conditions.
