Classification algorithms to improve the accuracy of identifying patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia using administrative data.

SUMMARYIn epidemiological studies of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that utilize administrative data, cases are typically defined by the presence of a pneumonia hospital discharge diagnosis code. However, not all such hospitalizations represent true CAP cases. We identified 3991 hospitalizations...

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Published in:	Epidemiology & Infection Vol. 139; no. 9; pp. 1296 - 1307
Main Authors:	Yu O, Nelson JC, Bounds L, Jackson LA
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Sep2011
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