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. 2019 Jan 3;20:3. doi: 10.1186/s12882-018-1156-2

Table 3.

Agreement between administrative (ICD-9) diagnosis codes and manual chart reviewa

Comorbidity Prevalence (Chart Review) Prevalence (EHR) Sensitivitya Specificitya Kappa Statistic p-value ‡
Cerebrovascular disease 10% 8% 100% 98% 0.88 < 0.001
Congestive heart failure 14% 16% 50% 93% 0.45 0.001
Coronary artery disease 18% 22% 82% 100% 0.88 < 0.001
Diabetes mellitus 44% 42% 95% 93% 0.88 < 0.001
Hypertension 78% 86% 91% 100% 0.73 < 0.001

aCalculated for ICD-9 diagnosis of each condition compared to chart review (including clinical notes, ICD-9 diagnoses, laboratory results etc.)

p-values are calculated from Cohen’s Kappa test statistic as an index of interrater agreement between 2 raters on categorical data