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Use of Administrative Data for the Identificationof Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Infection: The Validity
Kristen A Feemster1, Kateri H Leckerman2, Maria Middleton2
1Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
|December 1, 2015
Abstract:
We used Pediatric Health Information System data and laboratory records from 3 children's hospitals to determine whether administrative data accurately identify children with laboratory-confirmed influenza. Among 23 282 inpatients, diagnosis codes for influenza detected 73% of laboratory-confirmed influenza cases, whereas <1% of patients without a diagnosis code had laboratory-confirmed influenza.

