Clément Jambon-Barbara, N'dah Mathieu Ouattara, Claire Bernardeau, Frédéric Olive, Sophie Blaise, Jean-Luc Cracowski, Charles Khouri
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Abstract
Purpose: This study has two main objectives: 1/ to validate the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) diagnostic codes of skin ulcer in one French hospital using medical charts; 2/ to validate an out-hospital algorithm against ICD-10 codes using a healthcare database.
Methods: We first validated in-hospital ICD-10 codes for pressure, diabetic and vascular skin ulcers using the Grenoble University Hospital medical charts. Secondly, we assessed the validity of an out-hospital algorithm using dressing reimbursements, medical exams and comorbidities to identify skin ulcers using the French "échantillon généraliste des benéficiaires" database. We then compared the type of skin ulcers in patients hospitalized 1 year around the out-hospital skin ulcer identification date. We calculated specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV).
Results: The performances of ICD-10 codes for identifying patients with vascular, diabetic and pressure ulcers were all superior to 70%. The out-hospital identification of skin ulcers selected very different patients, younger and with less comorbidities than those hospitalized for skin ulcers. In patients hospitalized 1 year before or after the first dispensation of wound dressings, the concordance with ICD-10 codes was modest. Indeed, patients are wrongly classified as pressure ulcers, vascular ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers in respectively 27.7%, 52.0% and 48.8% of skin ulcers.
Conclusion: We found that performances of the in-hospital identification of pressure, vascular and diabetic foot ulcers were high allowing to use them to conduct observational studies in healthcare databases. However, outpatient identification retrieved heterogeneous performance, we therefore advise researchers using the latter to perform a sensitivity analysis restricted to hospitalized patients.
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Thérapie is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to Clinical Pharmacology, Therapeutics, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacovigilance, Addictovigilance, Social Pharmacology, Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics and Evidence-Based-Medicine. Thérapie publishes in French or in English original articles, general reviews, letters to the editor reporting original findings, correspondence relating to articles or letters published in the Journal, short articles, editorials on up-to-date topics, Pharmacovigilance or Addictovigilance reports that follow the French "guidelines" concerning good practice in pharmacovigilance publications. The journal also publishes thematic issues on topical subject.
The journal is indexed in the main international data bases and notably in: Biosis Previews/Biological Abstracts, Embase/Excerpta Medica, Medline/Index Medicus, Science Citation Index.
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