Development and Validation of Algorithms to Identify COVID-19 Patients Using a US Electronic Health Records Database: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Carolyn A BrownAjit A LondheFang HeAlvan ChengJunjie MaJie ZhangCorinne G BrooksJ Michael SprafkaKimberly A RoehlKatherine B CarlsonJohn H Page

Published in: Clinical epidemiology (2022)

Algorithms based on the U07.1 code had high sensitivity among hospitalized patients, but low specificity, especially after April 2020. None of the combinations of ICD-10-CM codes assessed performed with a satisfactory combination of high sensitivity and high specificity when using the SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR as the reference standard.

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