Can additional information be obtained from claims data to support surgical site infection diagnosis codes?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages S124-S132

  Warren, David K ^a   Nickel, Katelin B ^a   Wallace, Anna E ^b   Mines, Daniel ^b   Fraser, Victoria J ^a   Olsen, Margaret A ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEALTHCORE INC   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AZTREONAM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CILASTATIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; DORIPENEM; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; LINCOSAMIDE; LINEZOLID; LORACARBEF; MEROPENEM; PEDIAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; BONE PROSTHESIS; HYDROXYAPATITE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; BONE PROSTHESIS; CHILD; CROSS INFECTION; INSURANCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE SUBSTITUTES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907972053     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677830     Document Type: Article

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