Performance of Electronic Health Record Diagnosis Codes for Ambulatory Heart Failure Encounters

There is interest in leveraging the electronic medical record (EMR) to improve knowledge and understanding of patient characteristics and outcomes of ambulatory heart failure (HF) patients. However, the diagnostic performance of ICD-10 diagnosis codes from the EMR for patients with heart failure with reduced and preserved ejection fraction (HFrEF and HFpEF) in the ambulatory setting are unknown.

Source: Journal of Cardiac Failure - August 1, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Parag Goyal, Budhaditya Bose, Ruth Masterson Creber, Udhay Krishnan, Mei Yang, Joanne Brady, Jyotishman Pathak Source Type: research