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Is it possible to identify cases of coronary artery bypass graft postoperative surgical site infection accurately from claims data?

BACKGROUND: Claims data has usually been used in recent studies to identify cases of healthcare-associated infection. However, several studies have indicated that the ICD-9-CM codes might be inappropriate for identifying such cases from claims data; therefore, several researchers developed alternati...

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Autores principales: Yu, Tsung-Hsien, Hou, Yu-Chang, Lin, Kuan-Chia, Chung, Kuo-Piao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24884488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-14-42