Validity of the Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Korean National Medical Health Insurance Claims Data: The Korean Heart Study (1)

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Abstract

Background and Objectives

Medical insurance claims (MIC) data are one of the largest sources of outcome data in the form of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes. We evaluated the validity of the ICD codes from the Korean National MIC data with respect to the outcomes from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the Korean Heart Study.

Subjects and Methods

Baseline information was obtained from health examinations conducted from 1994 to 2001. Outcome information regarding the incidence of AMI came from hospital admission discharge records from 1994 to 2007. Structured questionnaires were sent to 98 hospitals. In total, 107 cases of AMI with ICD codes of I21- (93 men, 26-73 years of age) were included in the final analyses. ICD code accuracy and reliability (kappa) for AMI were calculated.

Results

A large number of AMI cases were from hospitals located in the Seoul area (75.9%). The accuracy of AMI was 71.4%, according to World Health Organization criteria (1997-2000, n=24, kappa=0.46) and 73.1% according to the European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology (ESC/ACC) criteria (2001-2007, n=83, kappa=0.74). An age of 50 years or older was the only factor related to inaccuracy of codes for AMI (odds ratio, 4.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.2-17.7) in patients diagnosed since January 2001 using ESC/ACC criteria (n=83).

Conclusion

The accuracy for diagnosing AMI using the ICD-10 codes in Korean MIC data was >70%, and reliability was fair to good; however, more attention is required for recoding ICD codes in older patients.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Korean Circ J

Journal ID (publisher-id): KCJ

Title: Korean Circulation Journal

Publisher: The Korean Society of Cardiology

ISSN (Print): 1738-5520

ISSN (Electronic): 1738-5555

Publication date (Print): January 2012

Publication date (Electronic): 31 January 2012

Volume: 42

Issue: 1

Pages: 10-15

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Institute for Health Promotion, Cardiovascular Genome Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

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Correspondence: Yangsoo Jang, MD, Institute for Health Promotion, Cardiovascular Genome Center, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2228-1523/8461, Fax: 82-2-365-5118, Jangys1212@ 123456yuhs.ac

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DOI: 10.4070/kcj.2012.42.1.10

PMC ID: 3283749

PubMed ID: 22363378

SO-VID: 6eeb36f8-beeb-40aa-b40c-e63f6019247f

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Date received : 10 August 2010

Date revision received : 22 September 2011

Date accepted : 18 October 2011

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