The Validity of Discharge Billing Codes Reflecting Severe Maternal Morbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Discharge diagnoses are used to track national trends and patterns of maternal morbidity. There are few data regarding the validity of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes used for this purpose. The goal of our study was to try to better understand the validity of administrative data being used to monitor and assess trends in morbidity.

Methods

Hospital stay billing records were queried to identify all delivery admissions at the Massachusetts General Hospital for the time period 2001 to 2011 and the University of Michigan Health System for the time period 2005 to 2011. From this, we identified patients with ICD-9-Clinical Modification (CM) diagnosis and procedure codes indicative of severe maternal morbidity. Each patient was classified with 1

SUBMITTER: Sigakis MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7481827 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature