Validity of Using Billing Codes From Electronic Health Records to Estimate Skin Cancer Counts.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients can develop multiple skin cancers, and their medical data can be spread over multiple health care systems. This fragmented care, combined with the lack of skin cancer registries, has limited our ability both to provide accurate estimates of incidence and to study the pathogenesis of multiple skin cancers.

Objective

To assess whether standard diagnostic and procedural codes present in the electronic health records at a single health care system are a valid proxy for estimating the number of overall skin cancers.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort study of patients seen at a single-center tertiary care hospital (ie, Vanderbilt University Medical Center) between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2018. All patients with at least 1 electron

SUBMITTER: Anand N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8358802 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature