How well can familial hypercholesterolemia be identified in an electronic health record database?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a condition characterized by high cholesterol levels and increased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) that often goes undiagnosed. The Dutch Lipid Network Criteria (DLNC) are used to identify FH in clinical settings via physical examination, personal and family history of CHD, in addition to the presence of deleterious mutations of the LDLR, ApoB, and PCSK9 genes. Agreement between clinical and genetic diagnosis of FH varies. While an ICD diagnosis code was not available for coding FH until 2016, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) clinical concept codes, including genetic diagnoses, for FH have been utilized in electronic health records (EHRs).

Objective

To evaluate the concordance of identi

SUBMITTER: Mues KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6241698 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature