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Characterisation of children's asthma status by ICD-9 code and criteria-based medical record review.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21063669     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVE: To characterise the relationship between ICD code-based (i.e. physician diagnosis-based) and criteria-based asthma ascertainment.
METHODS: We compared identification of children with asthma between criteria-based medical record review for asthma ascertainment and an ICD-9 code-based approach. We determined the agreement rate and validity index of ICD code-based asthma ascertainment using asthma status by medical record review as a gold standard.
RESULTS: Of the 115 study subjects, the agreement between medical record review and ICD-9 coding was 81.6% with a kappa value of 0.28 (P<0.0001). Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values for ICD-9 code were 24.0%, 97.8%, 75.0%, and 82.0%, respectively, using criteria for asthma by medical record review as gold standard.
CONCLUSIONS: ICD code-based asthma ascertainment appears to under-identify children with asthma compared to criteria-based medical record review. ICD codes may be useful for etiologic research but may not be suitable for surveillance of asthma epidemiology.
Authors:
Young Juhn; Amiinah Kung; Robert Voigt; Shirley Johnson
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Primary care respiratory journal : journal of the General Practice Airways Group     Volume:  20     ISSN:  1475-1534     ISO Abbreviation:  Prim Care Respir J     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-03-03     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101121543     Medline TA:  Prim Care Respir J     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  79-83     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Community Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA.
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