Benedict Kaitlin, Baggs James, Wolford Hannah, Jackson Brendan R, Gold Jeremy A W
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 24;10(3):ofad100. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad100. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Fungal diseases are frequently coded as "unspecified mycoses" in data sets used to estimate disease burden. In a large administrative database, 50.9% of unspecified mycosis hospitalizations during 2019-2021 had positive fungal laboratory testing, most commonly (79.1%), highlighting a potential need for improved coding practices and greater fungal laboratory testing.
在用于估计疾病负担的数据集中,真菌疾病经常被编码为“未指定的霉菌病”。在一个大型管理数据库中,2019年至2021年期间未指定霉菌病住院病例中有50.9%的真菌实验室检测呈阳性,最常见的是(79.1%),这突出表明可能需要改进编码做法并增加真菌实验室检测。