Disease identification based on ambulatory drugs dispensation and in-hospital ICD-10 diagnoses: a comparison.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacy-based case mix measures are an alternative source of information to the relatively scarce outpatient diagnoses data. But most published tools use national drug nomenclatures and offer no head-to-head comparisons between drugs-related and diagnoses-based categories. The objective of the study was to test the accuracy of drugs-based morbidity groups derived from the World Health Organization Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification of drugs by checking them against diagnoses-based groups.

Methods

We compared drugs-based categories with their diagnoses-based analogues using anonymous data on 108,915 individuals insured with one of four companies. They were followed throughout 2005 and 2006 and hospitalized at least once during this period. The agreemen

SUBMITTER: Halfon P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4228448 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature