Assessing the accuracy of using diagnostic codes from administrative data to infer antidepressant treatment indications: a validation study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the accuracy of using diagnostic codes from administrative data to infer treatment indications for antidepressants prescribed in primary care.

Methods

Validation study of administrative diagnostic codes for 13 plausible indications for antidepressants compared with physician-documented treatment indications from an indication-based electronic prescribing system in Quebec, Canada. The analysis included all antidepressant prescriptions written by primary care physicians between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2012 using the electronic prescribing system. Patient prescribed antidepressants were linked to physician claims and hospitalization data to obtain all diagnoses recorded in the past year.

Results

Diagnostic codes had poor sensitivity for all tre

SUBMITTER: Wong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6220980 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature