Validity of vascular trauma codes at major trauma centres

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Altoijry, Abdulmajeed [1 ,3 ]
Al-Omran, Mohammed [1 ,3 ]
Lindsay, Thomas F. [2 ]
Johnston, K. Wayne [2 ]
Melo, Magda [1 ]
Mamdani, Muhammad [1 ]
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[1] Univ Toronto, St Michaels Hosp, Li Ka Shing Knoweledge Inst, Toronto, ON, Canada
[2] Univ Toronto, Toronto Gen Hosp, Div Vasc Surg, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada
[3] King Saud Univ, Dept Surg, Div Vasc Surg, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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10.1503/cjs.013412
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Background: The use of administrative databases in vascular injury research has been increasing, but the validity of the diagnosis codes used in this research is uncertain. We assessed the positive predictive value (PPV) of International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10), vascular injury codes in administrative claims data in Ontario. Methods: We conducted a retrospective validation study using the Canadian Institute for Health Information Discharge Abstract Database, an administrative database that records all hospital admissions in Canada. We evaluated 380 randomly selected hospital discharge abstracts from the 2 main trauma centres in Toronto, Ont., St. Michael's Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, between Apr. 1, 2002, and Mar. 31, 2010. We then compared these records with the corresponding patients' hospital charts to assess the level of agreement for procedure coding. We calculated the PPV and sensitivity to estimate the validity of vascular injury diagnosis coding. Results: The overall PPV for vascular injury coding was estimated to be 95% (95% confidence interval [CI] 92.3-96.8). The PPV among code groups for neck, thorax, abdomen, upper extremity and lower extremity injuries ranged from 90.8 (95% CI 82.2-95.5) to 97.4 (95% CI 91.0-99.3), whereas sensitivity ranged from 90% (95% CI 81.5-94.8) to 98.7% (95% CI 92.9-99.8). Conclusion: Administrative claims hospital discharge data based on ICD-10 diagnosis codes have a high level of validity when identifying cases of vascular injury.
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