Strengths and limitations of international classification of disease ninth revision clinical modification codes in defining cervical spine surgery

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Marjorie C ^a   Laud, Purusottom W ^a   MacIas, Melissa ^a   Nattinger, Ann B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

administrative data; Cervical vertebrae; health service research; International Classifi cation of Diseases Ninth Revision Clinical Modifi cation; sensitivity and specifi city; spine surgery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ALGORITHMS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DATA MINING; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICAL RECORDS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL DISEASES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 78751590974     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181d273f6     Document Type: Article

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