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Validation of diagnostic codes for outpatient-originating sudden cardiac death and ventricular arrhythmia in Medicaid and Medicare claims data
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 10/27/09
Hennessy S et al. – First–listed SD/VA diagnostic codes identified in inpatient or emergency department encounters had very good agreement with clinical diagnoses and functioned well to identify outpatient–originating events. Researchers using such codes can be confident of the PPV when conducting studies of SD/VA originating in the outpatient setting.
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