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Utility of ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes for Public Health Surveillance
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ICD-9-CM codes have been proposed to be used as adjuncts to existing public health reporting systems and are commonly used for public health surveillance and research purposes. However these codes have been found to have variable… read more… their con- cordance to the gold standard criteria of CDC com- municable disease case definitions5 by a review of … for a reportable communicable disease and who met the CDC com- municable disease case definition criteria divided by … assigned for a similar disease, and (4) patient may have had disease but not consistent with specific …