Performance of diagnostic coding and laboratory testing results to measure COVID-19 during pregnancy and associations with pregnancy outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large-scale evaluation of COVID-19 is likely to rely on the quality of ICD coding. However, little is known about the validity of ICD-coded COVID-19 diagnoses.

Objectives

To evaluate the performance of diagnostic codes in detecting COVID-19 during pregnancy.

Methods

We used data from a national cohort of 78,283 individuals with a pregnancy ending between 11 March 2020 and 31 January 2021 in the OptumLabs^® Data Warehouse (OLDW). OLDW is a longitudinal, real-world data asset with de-identified administrative claims and electronic health record data. We identified all services with an ICD-10-CM diagnostic code of U07.1 and all laboratory claims records for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. We compared ICD-coded diagnoses to testing results to estimate po

SUBMITTER: Regan AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9303575 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature