Glossary:Dual coding

Dual coding, in cause-of-death statistics, is the assignment of two codes to a death; it can have different meanings:

• in ICD-10 Vol. 2 (page 22), dual coding refers to dagger-asterisk combinations and other optional dual coding;
• in the context of bridge coding, it refers to the process of coding data twice for two different classifications or methods in order to determine comparability;
• it can also refer to the independent manual coding of the same deaths, using the same classification methods, by different coders and/or different cause-of-death statistics offices; this is usually an exercise in measuring the quality and consistency of cause-of-death coding.

Related concepts

• Bridge coding
• Cause of death
• Correspondence table
• Death
• International classification of diseases (ICD)

Statistical data

• Causes of death statistics

External links

• World Health Organization - International classification of diseases

Source

• ICD-10 Vol. 2 (page 22)