The use of international classification of diseases codes to identify hospital admissions linked with adverse drug events: Validation study
Only 3% of ADE-related admissions were detected by the narrow ICD-code set and 27% by the broad code set without a significant drop in the specificity. ADE-related ICD codes seem to serve as triggers for 1 in 4 ADE-related hospital admissions.
Authors
- Daniala L. Weir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7044-2443)
- Fatma Karapinar‐Çarkit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3077-9663)
- Zuzana Očovská (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0050-5418)
Institutions
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Charles University (CZ)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- OLVG (NL)
- Pharmo Institute (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
- Published
- 2025-06-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bcp.70116
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.31
Funders
- Univerzita Karlova v Praze