How well do discharge diagnoses identify hospitalised patients with community-acquired infections?--a validation study.

<h4>Background</h4>Credible measures of disease incidence, trends and mortality can be obtained through surveillance using manual chart review, but this is both time-consuming and expensive. ICD-10 discharge diagnoses are used as surrogate markers of infection, but knowledge on the valid...

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Main Authors: Daniel Pilsgaard Henriksen, Stig Lønberg Nielsen, Christian Borbjerg Laursen, Jesper Hallas, Court Pedersen, Annmarie Touborg Lassen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24663388/?tool=EBI