ICD-9-CM Coding for Multidrug Resistant Infection Correlates Poorly With Microbiologically Confirmed Multidrug Resistant Infection

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Nov;38(11):1381-1383. doi: 10.1017/ice.2017.192. Epub 2017 Sep 5.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Academic Medical Centers
  • Actinobacteria
  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / microbiology
  • Clinical Coding / standards*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial*
  • Enterobacter
  • Enterococcus
  • Humans
  • International Classification of Diseases*
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • Missouri
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis
  • Staphylococcus aureus