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CDC on the complexities of using ICD coding to track NAS
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30335
Subject(s) - buprenorphine , methadone , fast track , coding (social sciences) , abstinence , medicine , track (disk drive) , opioid use disorder , psychiatry , psychology , medical emergency , opioid , computer science , sociology , surgery , social science , receptor , operating system
When it comes to neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), there is a clear causal connection to drug use by the mother, but this is difficult to track by epidemiologists who traditionally use ICD (International Classification of Diseases) diagnosis codes. These epidemiologists hope to see NAS increasing as more pregnant women without opioid use disorder get treatment with methadone or buprenorphine, but they can't track the extent to which NAS is increased to treatment.