ICD-9 Codes and Surveillance for Clostridium difficile–associated Disease
- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 12 (10), 1576-1579
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1210.060016
Abstract
We conducted a retrospective cohort study to compare Clostridium difficile–associated disease rates determined by C. difficile–toxin assays and International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) codes. The correlation between toxin assay results and ICD-9 codes was good (κ = 0.72, p<0.01). The sensitivity of the ICD-9 codes was 78% and the specificity was 99.7%.Keywords
This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
- Increasing Risk of Relapse after Treatment of Clostridium difficile Colitis in Quebec, CanadaClinical Infectious Diseases, 2005
- Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in a region of Quebec from 1991 to 2003: a changing pattern of disease severityCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2004
- Secular Trends in Hospital‐AcquiredClostridium difficileDisease in the United States, 1987–2001The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2004
- Trends in enteric disease as a cause of death in the United States, 1989-1996.American Journal of Epidemiology, 2003
- Clostridium difficile ColitisArchives of Surgery, 2002
- Clostridium difficile -associated diseasesIntensive Care Medicine, 2000
- Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Disease: Epidemiology and Clinical CharacteristicsInfection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1999
- Increasing Hospitalization and Death Possibly Due toClostridium difficileDiarrheal DiseaseEmerging Infectious Diseases, 1998
- Clostridium difficile–Associated DiarrheaClinical Infectious Diseases, 1998
- Severe Clostridium difficile colitisDiseases of the Colon & Rectum, 1995