{"id":10291,"date":"2021-06-09T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T18:26:36","slug":"accuracy-of-icd-10-diagnostic-codes-to-identify-covid-19-among-hospitalized-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/09\/accuracy-of-icd-10-diagnostic-codes-to-identify-covid-19-among-hospitalized-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Accuracy of ICD-10 Diagnostic Codes to Identify COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ICD-10 Diagnostic Code for COVID-19 (U07.1) had an overall sensitivity of 49% and specificity of 99% compared to the gold standard of a positive PCR test among 2,210 PCR-positive patients discharged between April and July 2020 across the Mass General Brigham health system in Boston, Massachusetts. Specificity was consistently high, but sensitivity varied and was lowest (28%) in July. Sensitivity was lower (14%) among those aged 0\u201317 years. The authors suggest that studies based solely on administrative databases may substantially undercount cases of COVID-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bhatt et al.\u00a0(June 7, 2021). Accuracy of ICD-10 Diagnostic Codes to Identify COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11606-021-06936-w\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11606-021-06936-w<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICD-10 Diagnostic Code for COVID-19 (U07.1) had an overall sensitivity of 49% and specificity of 99% compared to the gold standard of a positive PCR test among 2,210 PCR-positive patients discharged between April and July 2020 across the Mass General Brigham health system in Boston, Massachusetts. Specificity was consistently high, but sensitivity varied and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/09\/accuracy-of-icd-10-diagnostic-codes-to-identify-covid-19-among-hospitalized-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10292,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions\/10292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}