Identifying Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax from Administrative Databases: A Validation Study
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Identifying Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax from Administrative Databases: A Validation Study
Introduction. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a disorder commonly encountered in healthy young individuals. There is no differentiation between PSP and secondary pneumothorax (SP) in the current version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). This complicates the conduct of epidemiological studies on the subject. Objective. To validate the accuracy of an algorithm th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Respiratory Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1198-2241,1916-7245
DOI: 10.1155/2016/1690482