Detection of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Development of an Automated Case-Finding Algorithm Using Administrative Data

• Main Authors: Catherine L. Satterwhite (Author), Onchee Yu (Author), Marsha A. Raebel (Author), Stuart Berman (Author), Penelope P. Howards (Author), Hillard Weinstock (Author), David Kleinbaum (Author), Delia Scholes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ICD-9 codes are conventionally used to identify pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) from administrative data for surveillance purposes. This approach may include non-PID cases. To refine PID case identification among women with ICD-9 codes suggestive of PID, a case-finding algorithm was developed usin...