The predictive value of ICD-10 diagnostic coding used to assess Charlson comorbidity index conditions in the population-based Danish National Registry of Patients

BACKGROUND: The Charlson comorbidity index is often used to control for confounding in research based on medical databases. There are few studies of the accuracy of the codes obtained from these databases. We examined the positive predictive value (PPV) of the ICD-10 diagnostic coding in the Danish...

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Autores principales: Thygesen, Sandra K, Christiansen, Christian F, Christensen, Steffen, Lash, Timothy L, Sørensen, Henrik T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21619668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-83

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