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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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| 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 |