ICD-9 coding of emergency department visits for bee sting allergy - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunologydoi:10.1016/S0091-6749(03)81215-0Camargo, C.A.Gaeta, T.J.Kamarthi, G.S.Clark, S.Mosby, Inc.Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology...
Almost half the patients with food allergy would have been missed by using food-specific ICD-9-CM codes alone, whereas only 13% of patients with insect sting allergy would have been missed. Furthermore, characteristics of these allergy patients would have been biased by studying only patients ...
ICD-9-CM coding of emergency department visits for food and insect sting allergy. Ann Epidemiol 2006;16: 696-700.Clark S, Gaeta TJ, Kamarthi GS, Camargo CA. ICD-9-CM Coding of Emergency Department Visits for Food and Insect Sting Allergy. Ann Epidemiol 2006;16:696-700. [PubMed: ...