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

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 medi...

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Main Authors: Massimiliano Orso, Iosief Abraha, Anna Mengoni, Fabrizio Taborchi, Marcello De Giorgi, David Franchini, Paolo Eusebi, Anna Julia Heymann, Alessandro Montedori, Giuseppe Ambrosio, Francesco Cozzolino
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235714

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