The validity of ICD codes coupled with imaging procedure codes for identifying acute venous thromboembolism using administrative data

Vascular Medicine (United Kingdom)

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 364-368

  Alotaibi, Ghazi S ^a,b   Wu, Cynthia ^a   Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan ^c   McMurtry, M Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

International Classification of Diseases (ICD); pulmonary embolism; sensitivity; validation; venous thromboembolism (VTE); venous thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; ICD-10; ICD-9-CM; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ACUTE DISEASE; ALBERTA; ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA MINING; DUPLEX DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTIGRAPHY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME FACTOR; VALIDATION STUDY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ALBERTA; ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84938778904     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: 14770377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358863X15573839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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