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Reliance on Administrative Billing Codes to Track Medical Conditions Can Lead to High Diagnostic Error Rates

Use of billing codes in big data sets to find diagnoses can result in up to two-thirds of cases being mistakenly identified. Databases frequently used for medical research typically rely on ambulatory billing codes to identify diseases or medical procedures, but their accuracy is rarely verified in publications that rely on this data.

July 24, 2025


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