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Volume 18, Number 6—June 2012
Dispatch

Accuracy of ICD-10 Codes for Surveillance of Clostridium difficile Infections, France

Gabrielle JonesComments to Author , Namik Taright, Pierre Yves Boelle, Jeanne Marty, Valérie Lalande, Catherine Eckert, and Frédéric Barbut
Author affiliations: Sainte-Antoine Hospital–Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

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Figure 1

Flowchart of Clostridium difficile infections case classifications for patients admitted to Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France, 2000–2010. Bact+, positive laboratory result for C. difficile; ICD10+, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, discharge code for C. difficile infection, A04.7, as principal or associated diagnosis.

Figure 1. . . Flowchart of Clostridium difficile infections case classifications for patients admitted to Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France, 2000–2010. Bact+, positive laboratory result for C. difficile; ICD10+, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, discharge code for C. difficile infection, A04.7, as principal or associated diagnosis.

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