Analyses of Hospital Administrative Data That Use Diagnosis Codes Overestimate the Cases of Acute Pancreatitis

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 805-811.e1

  Saligram, Shreyas ^a   Lo, David ^a   Saul, Melissa ^b   Yadav, Dhiraj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Amylase; Lipase; Misdiagnosis; Validation

Indexed keywords

PANCREAS ENZYME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CODING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS CODE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

EID: 84862651753     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.03.025     Document Type: Article

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