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Positive predictive values of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision diagnoses of Gram-negative septicemia/sepsis and urosepsis for presence of Gram-negative bacteremia

BACKGROUND: Health care databases are a valuable resource for infectious disease epidemiology if diagnoses are accurately coded. We examined the ability of diagnostic coding to accurately identify Gram-negative bacteremia. METHODS: We randomly selected 100 patients among 1,703 patients recorded in t...

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Autores principales: Søgaard, Kirstine Kobberøe, Thomsen, Reimar Wernich, Schønheyder, Henrik Carl, Søgaard, Mette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4334314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25709502
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S75262