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View article: Impact of Statewide Statute Limiting Days’ Supply to Opioid-Naive Patients
Impact of Statewide Statute Limiting Days’ Supply to Opioid-Naive Patients Open
Statutory limits on days' supply among opioid-naive patients had little impact on opioid prescribing in Colorado. Legislating limits on opioid prescribing should be evaluated using Prescription Drug Monitoring Program data and considered f…
View article: Multi-site medical record review for validation of intentional self-harm coding in emergency departments
Multi-site medical record review for validation of intentional self-harm coding in emergency departments Open
Background Codes in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), are used for injury surveillance, including surveillance of intentional self-harm, as they appear in administrative billin…
View article: Interrupted time series design to evaluate ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding changes on trends in Colorado emergency department visits related to traumatic brain injury
Interrupted time series design to evaluate ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding changes on trends in Colorado emergency department visits related to traumatic brain injury Open
Background The transition in 2015 to the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Disease, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) in the US led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to propose a surveillance definiti…
View article: Descriptive exploration of overdose codes in hospital and emergency department discharge data to inform development of drug overdose morbidity surveillance indicator definitions in ICD-10-CM
Descriptive exploration of overdose codes in hospital and emergency department discharge data to inform development of drug overdose morbidity surveillance indicator definitions in ICD-10-CM Open
Background In October 2015, discharge data coding in the USA shifted to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), necessitating new indicator definitions for drug overdose morbidity. Am…
View article: Multisite medical record review of emergency department visits for traumatic brain injury
Multisite medical record review of emergency department visits for traumatic brain injury Open
Background In 2016, the CDC in the USA proposed codes from the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) for identifying traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study estimated positive predicti…
View article: Multisite medical record review of emergency department visits for unspecified injury of head following the ICD-10-CM coding transition
Multisite medical record review of emergency department visits for unspecified injury of head following the ICD-10-CM coding transition Open
Introduction In 2016, a proposed International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition, Clinical Modification surveillance definition for traumatic brain injury (TBI) morbidity was introduced that excluded the unspecified injury of head …
View article: Interrupted time Series Design to Evaluate ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM Coding Changes on Trends in Colorado Emergency Department visits Related to Traumatic Brain Injury
Interrupted time Series Design to Evaluate ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM Coding Changes on Trends in Colorado Emergency Department visits Related to Traumatic Brain Injury Open
Background. The transition in 2015 to the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Disease, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) in the USA led public health professionals to propose a surveillance definition of traumatic brain i…
View article: Evaluating Behavioral Health Surveillance Systems
Evaluating Behavioral Health Surveillance Systems Open
In 2015, more than 27 million people in the United States reported that they currently used illicit drugs or misused prescription drugs, and more than 66 million reported binge drinking during the previous month. Data from public health su…
View article: Assessment of Selected Overdose Poisoning Indicators in Health Care Administrative Data in 4 States, 2012
Assessment of Selected Overdose Poisoning Indicators in Health Care Administrative Data in 4 States, 2012 Open
Objectives: In 2012, a consensus document was developed on drug overdose poisoning definitions. We took the opportunity to apply these new definitions to health care administrative data in 4 states. Our objective was to calculate and compa…