Is it possible to identify cases of coronary artery bypass graft postoperative surgical site infection accurately from claims data?

Background: Claims data has usually been used in recent studies to identify cases of healthcare-associated infection. However, several studies have indicated that the ICD-9-CM codes might be inappropriate for identifying such cases from claims data; therefore, several researchers developed alternati...

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Publicado en:BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 42 - 43
Autores principales: Yu, Tsung-Hsien, Hou, Yu-Chang, Lin, Kuan-Chia, Chung, Kuo-Piao
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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