Identifying Ectopic Pregnancy in a Large Integrated Health Care Delivery System: Algorithm Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surveillance of ectopic pregnancy (EP) using electronic databases is important. To our knowledge, no published study has assessed the validity of EP case ascertainment using electronic health records.

Objective

We aimed to assess the validity of an enhanced version of a previously validated algorithm, which used a combination of encounters with EP-related diagnostic/procedure codes and methotrexate injections.

Methods

Medical records of 500 women aged 15-44 years with membership at Kaiser Permanente Southern and Northern California between 2009 and 2018 and a potential EP were randomly selected for chart review, and true cases were identified. The enhanced algorithm included diagnostic/procedure codes from the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth

SUBMITTER: Getahun D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7735905 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature