Validity of diagnostic codes and laboratory tests of liver dysfunction to identify acute liver failure events

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 676-683

  Lo Re, Vincent ^a,b   Carbonari, Dena M ^b   Forde, Kimberly A ^a,b   Goldberg, David ^a,b   Lewis, James D ^a,b   Haynes, Kevin ^b   Leidl, Kimberly B F ^b   Reddy, Rajender K ^a   Roy, Jason ^b   Sha, Daohang ^b   Marks, Amy R ^c   Schneider, Jennifer L ^c   Strom, Brian L ^b,d   Corley, Douglas A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Hepatotoxicity; ICD 9 codes; Liver injury; Pharmacoepidemiology; Validity

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; LACTULOSE; RIFAXIMIN; WARFARIN;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CODING ALGORITHM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC COMA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; ICD-9; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC HEPATITIS; CALIFORNIA; CHEMICAL AND DRUG INDUCED LIVER INJURY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CODING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CHEMICAL AND DRUG INDUCED LIVER INJURY; CLINICAL CODING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING;

EID: 84933674003     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.3774     Document Type: Article

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