International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification Codes in Discharge Abstracts Are Poor Measures of Complication Occurrence in Medical Inpatients

Medical Care

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 589-602

  Geraci, Jane M ^a   Ashton, Carol M ^a   Kuykendall, David H ^a   Johnson, Michael L ^a   Wu, Louise ^a  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data bases; Adverse events; Complications; ICD 9 CM

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCUMENTATION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DISEASE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031154295     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199706000-00005     Document Type: Article

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