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Accuracy of ICD-9 codes in identifying patients with peptic ulcer and gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the regional healthcare administrative database of Umbria

BACKGROUND: Peptic ulcer is a widespread disease, frequently complicated by perforation and bleeding. Administrative databases are useful tool to perform epidemiological and drug utilization studies, but they need a validation process based on a comparison with the original data contained in the med...

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Autores principales: Orso, Massimiliano, Abraha, Iosief, Mengoni, Anna, Taborchi, Fabrizio, De Giorgi, Marcello, Franchini, David, Eusebi, Paolo, Heymann, Anna Julia, Montedori, Alessandro, Ambrosio, Giuseppe, Cozzolino, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7337287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32628718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235714