Updated Diagnosis Grouping System for Pediatric Emergency Department Visits.
Publication/Presentation Date
5-1-2023
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to update the Diagnosis Grouping System (DGS) for International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision ( ICD-10 ) codes for ongoing use. The DGS was developed in 2010 using ICD-9 codes with 21 major groups and 27 subgroups to facilitate research on pediatric patients presenting to emergency departments and required updated classification for more recent ICD codes.
METHODS: All emergency department discharges available in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) database for 2016 were included to identify ICD-10 codes. These codes were then mapped onto the DGS codes originally derived from ICD-9 . We used ICD-10 codes from the PECARN database from 2017 to 2019 to confirm validity.
RESULTS: The DGS was updated with ICD-10 codes based on 2016 PECARN data, and this updated DGS was successfully applied to 6,853,479 (97.3%) of all codes from 2017 to 2019.
DISCUSSION: Using ICD-10 codes from the PECARN Registry, the DGS was updated to reflect ICD-10 codes to facilitate ongoing research.
Volume
39
Issue
5
First Page
299
Last Page
303
ISSN
1535-1815
Published In/Presented At
Fant, C., Marin, J. R., Ramgopal, S., Simon, N. E., Richards, R., Olsen, C. S., Alessandrini, E. A., Alpern, E. R., & PECARN Registry Study Group (2023). Updated Diagnosis Grouping System for Pediatric Emergency Department Visits. Pediatric emergency care, 39(5), 299–303. https://doi.org/10.1097/PEC.0000000000002692
Disciplines
Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Health and Medical Administration | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
PubMedID
35881008
Department(s)
Administration and Leadership
Document Type
Article