Why the study?
Do ICD10 hospital discharge codes accurately identify hospitalizations due to heart failure?
Population
Patients admitted between November 1997 and January 1998 with either heart failure or atrial fibrillation.
Comparison
Identification of heart failure using ICD10… vs Case note review (clinical diagnosis)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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ICD-10 codes miss over half of HF hospitalizations in AF; leaves open reliable HF epidemiology from administrative data without validation.
Do ICD10 hospital discharge codes accurately identify hospitalizations due to heart failure?
Hospital discharge codes substantially underestimate hospital events related to heart failure in the UK, highlighting the limitations of relying solely on administrative data for heart failure epidemiology.
Khand et al. (2005) studied this question.
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