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Validity of vascular trauma codes at major trauma centres

Author(s) -

Abdulmajeed Altoijry,

Mohammed AlOmran,

Thomas F. Lindsay,

K.Wayne Johnston,

Magda Melo,

Muhammad Mamdani

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

canadian journal of surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1488-2310

pISSN - 0008-428X

DOI - 10.1503/cjs.013412

Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , injury severity score , diagnosis code , emergency medicine , icd 10 , retrospective cohort study , external cause , hospital discharge , occupational safety and health , injury prevention , poison control , surgery , population , psychiatry , environmental health , pathology

The use of administrative databases in vascular injury research has been increasing, but the validity of the diagnosis codes used in this research is uncertain. We assessed the positive predictive value (PPV) of International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10), vascular injury codes in administrative claims data in Ontario.

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