Should International Classification of Diseases codes be used to survey hospital-acquired pneumonia?
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Should International Classification of Diseases codes be used to survey hospital-acquired pneumonia?

  • Wolfensberger A Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: aline.wolfensberger@usz.ch.
  • Meier AH Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Kuster SP Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Mehra T Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Meier MT Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Sax H Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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  • 2018-02-08
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  • The Journal of hospital infection. - 2018
English As surveillance of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is very resource intensive, alternatives for HAP surveillance are needed urgently. This study compared HAP rates according to routine discharge diagnostic codes of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10; ICD-HAP) with HAP rates according to the validated surveillance definitions of the Hospitals in Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance (HELICS/IPSE; HELICS-HAP) by manual retrospective re-evaluation of patient records. The positive predictive value of ICD-HAP for HELICS-HAP was 0.35, and sensitivity was 0.59. Therefore, the currently available ICD-10-based routine discharge data do not allow reliable identification of patients with HAP.
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