Electronic databases, MEDLINE and Embase, were searched for validation studies where an administrative case definition (using ICD codes) for diabetes in adults was validated against a reference and statistical measures of the performance reported. The search yielded 2895 abstracts, and of the 193 ...
Validating ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Claims Database Study flowchart to identify true Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) patients from the claims database validated with electronic medical records....
We found a total of 827 ICD-10 codes that have been used in the medical literature to identify adverse drug events. The median number of codes used to search for adverse drug events was 190 (IQR 156–289) with a large degree of variability between studies in the numbers and types of ...
The biggest challenge is the shift from 15,000 codes in ICD-9 to 110,000 codes in ICD-10, he said. Amazingly, there are coders who "know the 15,000 practically by heart because they use the same 5,000 every day," Schwend said, adding "it will be very different when it expands ...
Most European hospitals use ICD codes to store and report their data about diagnosis and medical procedures. The issue to be solved is that some data in these hospitals are stored in ICD-9-Proc and other in ICD-10. The goal is to achieve the possibility of using these datasets together. ...
This is due, of course, to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) yearlong grace period during which claims were not denied based solely on having an unspecified code-as long as that code was from the correct "family" of ICD-10 codes. With that yearlong buffer now drawing...
The Web's Free ICD-9-CM Medical Coding Reference. ICD9Data.com takes the current ICD-9-CM and HCPCS medical billing codes and adds 5.3 million links between them. Combine that with a Google-powered search engine, drill-down navigation system and instant
The addition of surgical procedure codes further separated EMU admissions for intracranial EEG monitoring. When applied to larger, more comprehensive datasets, these code-based queries should enhance our understanding of EMU utilization and access to care on a scalable basis....
Deriving ICD-10 Codes for Patient Safety Indicators for Large-scale Surveillance Using Administrative Hospital Datapatient safety indicatorsICD-10administrative datadiagnosis timingBackground: Existing administrative data patient safety indicators (PSIs) have been limited by uncertainty around the timing of ...
Stausberg, ICD-10 codes used to identify adverse drug events in administrative data: a systematic review, JAMIA (2013), doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002116.Hohl CM, Karpov A, Reddekopp L, Stausberg J: ICD-10 codes used to identify adverse drug events in administrative data: a systematic ...