Validity of using ICD-9-CM codes to identify selected categories of obstetric complications, procedures and co-morbidities

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 421-429

  Goff, Sarah L ^a   Pekow, Penelope S ^a,b   Markenson, Glenn ^a   Knee, Alexander ^a   Chasan Taber, Lisa ^b   Lindenauer, Peter K ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

administrative data; complications; obstetric; validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HUMAN; ICD 9 CM; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MEDICAL RECORDS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864843997     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2012.01303.x     Document Type: Article

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