Positive predictive value of the ICD-10 hospital diagnosis of pleural empyema in the Danish national registry of patients

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-89

  Søgaard, Mette ^a,b   Kornum, Jette Brommann ^b   Schønheyder, Henrik Carl ^a   Thomsen, Reimar Wernich ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Empyema; International classification of disease codes; Pneumonia; Positive predictive value; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 79952983484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S16931     Document Type: Article

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