Patient Care Encounter (PCE) - Veterans Affairs

We defined bowel cancer as C18, C19 or C20 according to the ICD-10-AM, 8th edition. We defined rectal cancer as C20 and colon cancer as C18 or C19. We assumed a patient’s diagnosis to be the first diagnosis if we could identify no previous diagnosis for that patient in the NZCR since 1 January 1995. ................
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