The quality of diagnosis code is very important in the area of clinical data management, billing costs, and other matters relating to health care services. However, still often found inaccurate diagnosis codes resulting from a clinical coder. For this reason, it is necessary to conduct a clinical coding audit to improve the quality of the diagnosis code. In Indonesia some hospitals never conducted clinical coding audits because there are no instruments available for doing that. Fatmawati General Hospital never conducted a clinical coding audit. The purpose of this study is to design a clinical coding audit instrument in Fatmawati General Hospital. This is "Research & Development" study, the Delphi technique used to validate the clinical coding audit instrument design. Subjects of this study were clinical coder experts who had at least 5 years of experience as a clinical coders and the object of this research is clinical coding audit instrument. The results of the first round Delphi technique, the seven coding quality elements of the audit instrument were approved by all clinical coder experts and used in second round questionnaires. The results of second round 2, is known that the encoding quality elements recommended for use are reliability, completeness, timeliness, accuracy, relevance, and legibility. Element definition is not used because 80% of clinical coder experts didn't recommend it. This clinical coding audit instrument needs to be considered for use in conducting clinical coding audits in health care services. However, previously this instrument need to be tested for its implementation.
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