Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data

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These newly developed ICD-10 and ICD-9-CM comorbidity coding algorithms produce similar estimates of comorbidity prevalence in administrative data, and may outperform existing ICD-9-CM coding algorithms.

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ICD-10AlgorithmMedicineCoding (social sciences)Diagnosis codeComorbidityCurrent Procedural TerminologyData miningComputer scienceStatisticsPopulationInternal medicineMathematicsSurgery

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Year: 2005
Type: article
Volume: 43
Issue: 11
Pages: 1130-1139
Citations: 10097
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                                    Hude Quan, 
                                
                                    Vijaya Sundararajan, 
                                
                                    Patricia Halfon
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2005). 
                            Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data. 
                            Medical Care
                            , 43
                            (11)
                            , 1130-1139.
                            https://doi.org/10.1097/01.mlr.0000182534.19832.83
                        

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DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000182534.19832.83