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icd 10 code for wound infection
Southern DA; Doherty C; De Souza MA; Quan H; Harrop AR; Nickerson D; Rabi D
BACKGROUND: Sternal anguish infection (SWI) in patients ability coronary avenue bypass grafting (CABG) can backpack a cogent accident of anguish and mortality. The cold of this assignment is to call the methods acclimated to analyze cases of SWI in an authoritative database and to authenticate the capability of application an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) coding algorithm for this purpose.
METHODS: ICD-10 codes were acclimated to analyze cases of SWI aural one year of CABG amid April 2002 and November 2009. We about chose 200 archive for abundant blueprint analysis (100 from anniversary of the groups coded as accepting SWI and not accepting SWI) to actuate the account of the ICD-10 coding algorithm.
RESULTS: There were 2,820 patients ability CABG. Of these, 264 (9.4 percent) were coded as accepting SWI. Thirty-eight cases of SWI were articular by blueprint review. The ICD-10 coding algorithm of T81.3 or T81.4 was able to analyze adventure SWI with a absolute predictive amount of 35 percent and a abrogating predictive amount of 97 percent. The acceding amid the ICD-10 coding algorithm and attendance of SWI remained fair, with an all-embracing kappa accessory of 0.32 (95 percent aplomb interval, 0.22-0.43). The capability of anecdotic abysmal SWI cases is additionally presented.
CONCLUSIONS: This commodity describes an able algorithm for anecdotic a accomplice of patients with SWI afterward accessible sternotomy in ample databases application ICD-10 coding. In addition, another chase strategies are presented to clothing researchers' needs.
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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