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Changes in the accuracy of administrative data for the detection of surgical site infections

Author(s) -

Brian T. Bucher,

Meng Yang,

Julie Arndorfer,

Cherie Frame,

Jan Orton,

Matthew H. Samore,

Kristin Dascomb

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

infection control and hospital epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.243

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1559-6834

pISSN - 0899-823X

DOI - 10.1017/ice.2020.1346

Subject(s) - surgical site infection , diagnosis code , medicine , hysterectomy , ninth , colectomy , general surgery , surgery , environmental health , population , physics , disease , ulcerative colitis , acoustics

We performed a retrospective analysis of the changes in accuracy of International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-CM) diagnosis codes for colectomy and hysterectomy surgical site infection surveillance. After the transition from ICD-CM ninth edition to tenth edition codes, there was no significant change in the accuracy of these codes for SSI surveillance.

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