Underestimated prevalence of heart failure in hospital inpatients: a comparison of ICD codes and discharge letter information

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 778-787

  Kaspar, Mathias ^a,b   Fette, Georg ^a,b   Güder, Gülmisal ^a   Seidlmayer, Lea ^a   Ertl, Maximilian ^a,b   Dietrich, Georg ^b   Greger, Helmut ^a   Puppe, Frank ^b   Störk, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data warehouse; Electronic health records; Heart failure; ICD coding; Information extraction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFARCTION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; YOUNG ADULT; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; GERMANY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85045418190     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-018-1245-z     Document Type: Article

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