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Use of International Classification of Dise... [J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI

Use of International Classification of Dise... [J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI



 2013 Dec;61(12):2186-91. doi: 10.1111/jgs.12539. Epub 2013 Nov 1.

Use of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, codes to identify inpatient fall-related injuries.

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:

To compare falls and fall-related injuries that a fall evaluator or hospital incident report identified with injuries identified according to discharge International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes for the same set of inpatient episodes of care.

DESIGN:

Prospective, descriptive study.

SETTING:

Sixteen adult general medical and surgical units in a major urban teaching hospital.

PARTICIPANTS:

All adults who sustained a fall with injury during a 5-year period (380 falls with injury).

MEASUREMENTS:

Falls that a fall evaluator or hospital incident report identified were classified according to their injury severity. Discharge abstracts provided diagnosis codes (ICD-9-CM) for the discharge, including fall-related injury codes.

RESULTS:

Three hundred forty-three inpatient falls with injury (90.2%) resulted in temporary harm to the individual; the remaining 37 falls (9.8%) resulted in more-serious harm. Sixteen of the 37 falls with injury extending hospitalization or resulting in death were identified using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-targeted injury code ranges combined with present-on-admission indicators. Of the 21 falls with injury that were not identified, nine (42.9%) lacked documentation of any injury, and seven (33.3%) identified other injuries outside the CMS-targeted injury code ranges.

CONCLUSION:

The CMS-targeted ICD-9-CM codes used to identify fall-related injuries in claims data do not always detect the most-serious falls.
© 2013, Copyright the Authors Journal compilation © 2013, The American Geriatrics Society.

KEYWORDS:

ICD-9-CM codes; fall-related injuries; hospital-acquired conditions; inpatient falls

PMID:
 
24329820
 
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 
PMCID:
 
PMC3876293
 [Available on 2014/12/1]

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