Validity of ICD-based algorithms to estimate the prevalence of injection drug use among infective endocarditis hospitalizations in the absence of a reference standard.

Background: International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code algorithms are routinely used to estimate the frequency of illicit injection drug use (IDU)-associated hospitalizations in administrative health datasets despite a lack of evidence regarding their validity. We aimed to measure the sensi...

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Publicado en:Drug & Alcohol Dependence Vol. 209
Autores principales: McGrew, Kaitlin M., Carabin, Hélène, Garwe, Tabitha, Jafarzadeh, S. Reza, Williams, Mary B., Zhao, Yan Daniel, Drevets, Douglas A.
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Apr2020
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