Performance of international classification of diseases, 9th revision, clinical modification codes as an adverse drug event surveillance system

Medical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 629-636

  Hougland, Paul ^a   Xu, Wu ^a,b   Pickard, Steve ^a   Masheter, Carol ^a   Williams, Scott D ^a,b,c  

^a UTAH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HEALTHINSIGHT   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Adverse drug events; ICD 9 CM codes; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MULTICENTER STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746716995     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000215859.06051.77     Document Type: Article

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