Using ICD codes and birth records to prevent mis-matches of multiple births in linked hospital readmission data.
Multiple births present a challenge for accurately identifying newborn readmissions when using probabilistic linkage methods and the given name is missing. We discovered that using ICD newborn codes and linking to birth certificates to identify multiple births in hospital discharge data improves the linking accuracy for newborn readmissions by 28.9%.
Fraser
Alison
A
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Liu
Zhiwei
Z
Smith
Emily
E
Mineau
Geraldine
G
Xu
Wu
W
D001719:Birth Certificates; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009099:Multiple Birth Offspring / Q000145:classification*; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014589:Utah