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ArticleInjury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2021

Multisite medical record review of emergency department visits for unspecified injury of head following the ICD-10-CM coding transition.

Alexis Peterson, Barbara A Gabella, Jewell Johnson, Beth Hume, Ann Liu, Julia F Costich, Jeanne Hathaway, Svetla Slavova, Renee Johnson, Matt Breiding

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Article in Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Use of ICD-10-CM coded hospitalisation and emergency department data for injury surveillance.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Alexis PetersonNational Center for Injury Prevention and Control-Division of Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA yxf5@cdc.gov.ORCID 0000-0003-3033-0177
Barbara A GabellaColorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6301-116X
Jewell JohnsonColorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Beth HumeMassachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Ann LiuCenter for Environmental & Occupational Epidemiology, Environmental Health Bureau, Maryland Department of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Julia F CostichKentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Jeanne HathawayInjury Surveillance Program, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Svetla SlavovaUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4541-6574
Renee JohnsonNational Center for Injury Prevention and Control-Division of Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Matt BreidingNational Center for Injury Prevention and Control-Division of Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · USColorado Department of Public Health and Environment · USMassachusetts Department of Public Health · USUniversity of Kentucky · USMaryland Department of Health · US

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NCIPC CDC HHS NU17CE924846
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionIn 2016, a proposed International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition, Clinical Modification surveillance definition for traumatic brain injury (TBI) morbidity was introduced that excluded the unspecified injury of head (S09.90) diagnosis code. This study assessed emergency department (ED) medical records containing S09.90 for evidence of TBI based on medical documentation.

methodsState health department representatives in Maryland, Kentucky, Colorado and Massachusetts reviewed a target of 385 randomly sampled ED records uniquely assigned the S09.90 diagnosis code (without proposed TBI codes), which were initial medical encounters among state residents discharged home during October 2015-December 2018. Using standardised abstraction procedures, reviewers recorded signs and symptoms of TBI, and head imaging results. A tiered case confirmation strategy was applied that assigned a level of certainty (high, medium, low, none) to each record based on the number and type of symptoms and imaging results present in the record. Positive predictive value (PPV) of S09.90 by level of TBI certainty was calculated by state.

resultsWide variation in PPV of sampled ED records assigned S09.90: 36%-52% had medium or high evidence of TBI, while 48%-64% contained low or no evidence of a TBI. Loss of consciousness was mentioned in 8%-24% of sampled medical records. DISCUSSION: Exclusion of the S09.90 code in surveillance estimates may result in many missed TBI cases; inclusion may result in counting many false positives. Further, missed TBI cases influenced by incidence estimates, based on the TBI surveillance definition, may lead to inadequate allocation of public health resources.

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Brain InjuriesBrain Injuries, TraumaticEmergency Service, HospitalHumansInternational Classification of DiseasesMedical Recordsepidemiologysurveillancetraumatic brain injury

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PMID33674328
PMCPMC7948189
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