Case Ascertainment in Pediatric Heart Failure Using International Classification of Disease Clinical Modification (ICD-CM) Codes

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold> Most epidemiological studies in pediatric heart failure (HF) use administrative database sources, defining patient cohorts by presence of a single HF ICD code. However, the ability of ICD codes to identify true HF patients is unknown in pediatrics. Here we describe the accuracy of HF ICD-10-CM code search algorithms, in identifying pediatric patients with HF from...

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• Algorithms
• Child, Preschool
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Electronic Health Records
• Hypertension
• Pediatrics
• Primary Health Care
• Sensitivity and Specificity

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5aee8c1b-985b-5f09-9c86-f090af462fec

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-4941771/v1