Assessing the Burden of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Validation of ICD-9-CM Data, Florida, 2010-2011.

ABSTRACT:

Context

On October 1, 2015, the United States transitioned from using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) to ICD-10-CM. Continuing to monitor the burden of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) after the transition presently requires use of data dependent on ICD-9-CM coding to enable trend analyses. Little has been published on the validation of using ICD-9-CM codes to identify NAS cases.

Objective

To assess the validity of hospital discharge data (HDD) from selected Florida hospitals for passive NAS surveillance, based on ICD-9-CM codes, which are used to quantify baseline prevalence of NAS.

Design

We reviewed infant and maternal data for all births at 3 Florida hospitals from 2010 to 2011. Potential NAS cases i

SUBMITTER: Phillips-Bell GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6956845 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan/Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature