How Well Do Discharge Diagnoses Identify Hospitalised Patients with Community-Acquired Infections? – A Validation Study

BACKGROUND: Credible measures of disease incidence, trends and mortality can be obtained through surveillance using manual chart review, but this is both time-consuming and expensive. ICD-10 discharge diagnoses are used as surrogate markers of infection, but knowledge on the validity of infections i...

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Main Authors: Henriksen, Daniel Pilsgaard, Nielsen, Stig Lønberg, Laursen, Christian Borbjerg, Hallas, Jesper, Pedersen, Court, Lassen, Annmarie Touborg
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963967/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24663388
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092891
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