[Review and update of the SENPE-SEDOM-SEEN consensus document on the coding of hospital malnutrition].

The concept of "disease related malnutrition" (DRM) is far from the concept of malnutrition classically diagnosed in public health, which is determined by socio-demographic factors. In 2008, the Spanish Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (SENPE) and the Spanish Society of Medical Documentation (SEDOM) published a consensus defining more precisely the types of malnutrition seen in hospitals and their corresponding coding. Changes in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the evolution of clinical information have made it necessary to revise and update this consensus in order to establish new criteria to guide the recording and coding of diagnoses of malnutrition in the field of hospital care, thus facilitating the work of both clinicians and coders and improving the visibility of DRE, by adapting from the clinical diagnoses of undernutrition based on the GLIM criteria (Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition) proposed by the scientific societies to the current codes proposed by ICD-10-ES.

[Evaluation of a medical records archive through the application of statistical methods for quality control].

Background: In undertaking a Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS) of hospital discharges has to be done for all hospitals. It depends on the good function of the Medical Records Archive. The objective of this study is the continuous evaluation of the quality of the Medical Records Archive via Control Diagrams statistical techniques arose.

[Tuberculosis pathology attended in emergency through the analysis of the hospital discharges MBDS in the West Valladolid Area, Spain (2002-2006)].

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be an important health problem, in many cases the Hospital Emergency Services (HES) are the first contact of the patients with the sanitary system, there is not known the impact of this disease in the above mentioned services. The objectives of this study are to know the importance of TB in HES and to describe hospital discharges (MBDS) with TB diagnosis and if they had already been diagnosed in the HES.

Methods: A retrospective descriptive study of discharges with TB diagnosis in the hospital ward and in the HES of a tertiary care university hospital from 2002 to 2006.

[Epidemiological surveillance of pulmonary tuberculosis treated at the specialized care level based on 2 data sources, Valladolid; Spain].

Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis is still more frequent that it should be in Spain given the degree of Spain's social and healthcare-related development. Apart from some individual studies, such as the Multicenter Tuberculosis Research Project, the incidence of tuberculosis is known by way of the Compulsory Notifiable Disease System, in which some degree of under-notification has been detected. The question has been raised as to whether this data can be improved through the additional use of another registry, specifically the Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS).