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Validation of discharge diagnosis codes to identify serious infections among middle age and older adults
BMJ open, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. –, 2018
Abstract
Discharge diagnosis codes have a high PPV for identifying hospitalisations for common, serious infections among middle age and older adults. PPV estimates for rare infections were imprecise.
Keywords
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
- NCBI
- NLM
- MEDLINE
- humans
- pubmed abstract
- nih
- national institutes of health
- national library of medicine
- reproducibility of results
- research support
- algorithms
- female
- male
- N.I.H.
- Extramural
- aged
- middle aged
- 80 and over
- Retrospective Studies
- United States
- infections / diagnosis*
- predictive value of tests
- validation study
- infections / epidemiology*
- Carlos G Grijalva
- medical records / statistics & numerical data*
- pmid:29921683
- pmc6009457
- doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020857
- andrew d wiese
- marie r griffin
- clinical coding / statistics & numerical data*
- infections / classification
- international classification of diseases*
- medicaid
- patient discharge*
- tennessee / epidemiology
How to cite
Wiese AD; Griffin MR; Stein CM; Schaffner W; Greevy RA; Mitchel EF; Grijalva CG. (2018). Validation of discharge diagnosis codes to identify serious infections among middle age and older adults. BMJ open, 8(6), –. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29921683
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