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ICD-10 codes used to identify adverse drug events in administrative data: a systematic review

2013; Oxford University Press; Volume: 21; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002116

1527-974X

Corinne M. Hohl, Andrei Karpov, Lisa Reddekopp, Jürgen Stausberg,

Healthcare cost, quality, practices

Background Adverse drug events, the unintended and harmful effects of medications, are important outcome measures in health services research. Yet no universally accepted set of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) revision 10 codes or coding algorithms exists to ensure their consistent identification in administrative data. Our objective was to synthesize a comprehensive set of ICD-10 codes used to identify adverse drug events.