Measuring Diagnoses¶
O'Malley, K. J., Cook, K. F., Price, M. D., Wildes, K. R., Hurdle, J. F., & Ashton, C. M. (2005). Measuring Diagnoses: ICD Code Accuracy. Health Services Research, 40(5), 1620-1639.
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Primes¶
- Instrument Interpretive Drift
- In medical coding, ICD conventions tighten or loosen over years so that what gets recorded as "heart failure" or "sepsis" changes without the diagnostic criteria on paper changing, a primary confound in disease time-trend analyses.
This sourceDocuments that ICD coding practice (coder training, facility quality-control, precedent) varies and shifts independently of the underlying clinical criteria, confounding disease time-trend analyses.
- In medical coding, ICD conventions tighten or loosen over years so that what gets recorded as "heart failure" or "sepsis" changes without the diagnostic criteria on paper changing, a primary confound in disease time-trend analyses.
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