Are Increasing Trends in Opioid-Related Hospitalizations Attributable to Increases in Diagnosis Recordability? Evidence from 2 Large States.

ABSTRACT: Based on calculations using all-listed diagnoses, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reports increasing national trends in opioid-related hospitalizations. It is unclear whether the reported increases are attributable to increases in available diagnosis fields. We leveraged increases in available diagnosis fields, ie, diagnosis recordability, in 2 states to examine their effects on opioid-related hospitalizations, graphically and with nonlinear least squares. Hospitalization data from Texas (1999-2011, N = 36 593 049) and New York (2005-2015Q3, N = 27 582 208) were aggregated to quarter-year in each state. Opioid-related hospitalizations were identified using the same International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) Diagnosis Cod

SUBMITTER: Denham A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6628518 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature