Adapting the European Concerted Action on Congenital Anomalies and Twins (EUROCAT) Guide 1.5 for Use in Post-Authorisation Safety Studies Using US Data.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Many post-authorization safety studies focus on congenital malformations and rely on diagnosis codes found in US data sources. However, no authoritative standards exist for identifying and classifying malformations in these data. To address this, we translated an existing public health surveillance guide, the European Concerted Action on Congenital Anomalies and Twins (EUROCAT), into an ICD-10-CM code list for use in studies using US administrative healthcare data. The EUROCAT guide was selected for its decisive major or minor classification of each code. However, translation was required for use in US data sources since EUROCAT utilizes ICD-10-BPA which differs from ICD-10-CM (the coding system commonly encountered in US data sources).

Methods

We mapped EUROCAT to I

SUBMITTER: Hoffman SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11829207 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature