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Utility of ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes for Public Health Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
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… been found to have variable accuracy for both health- care billing3 as well as for disease classification4 due to …