Validation of an International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision coding algorithm to identify decompressive craniectomy for stroke.

Background: Although International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD9-CM) coding is the basis of administrative claims data, no study has validated an ICD9-CM algorithm to identify patients undergoing decompressive craniectomy for space-occupying supratentorial in...

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Published in:	BMC Neurology Vol. 17; pp. 1 - 7
Main Authors:	Dasenbrock, Hormuzdiyar H., Cote, David J., Pompeu, Yuri, Vasudeva, Viren S., Smith, Timothy R., Gormley, William B.
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	BioMed Central 06/26/2017
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