Validating Use of Electronic Health Data to Identify Patients with Urinary Tract Infections in Outpatient Settings.
George GermanosPatrick LightRoger ZoorobJason L SalemiFareed KhanMichael HansenKalpana GuptaBarbara TrautnerLarissa GrigoryanPublished in: Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) (2020)
ICD-10 diagnosis codes with or without symptom codes reliably identify UTI visits; symptom codes alone are not reliable. ICD-10 based algorithms are a valid method to study UTIs in primary care settings.