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An Electronic Documentation System Increases Diagnostic Code Capture for Very Low Birth Weight Infants. Peter J. Porcelli Jr., MD, MS Department of Pediatrics Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC keywords: electronic documentation, neonatal medicine, Java software, clinical research Abbreviations: DX code: diagnostic code PDS: Paper documentation system EDS: Electronic documentation system VLBW: very low birth weight (infant) NICU: neonatal intensive care unit Introduction Neonatal intensive care is provided in special hospital units (NICU) for the 40,000 very low birth weight infants (VLBW; BW