Comparison of ICD code-based diagnosis of obesity with measured obesity in children and the implications for health care cost estimates

BACKGROUND: Administrative health databases are a valuable research tool to assess health care utilization at the population level. However, their use in obesity research limited due to the lack of data on body weight. A potential workaround is to use the ICD code of obesity to identify obese indivi...

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Autores principales: Kuhle, Stefan, Kirk, Sara FL, Ohinmaa, Arto, Veugelers, Paul J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22189019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-173

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22189019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-173

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