2 new studies show hospitalization rates of kids in 2 CA hospitals overestimated by at least 40% Why? "incidental diagnosis" eg, child at hosp for fracture, gets routine covid test, is (+) but asymptomatic. Incorrectly counted as hospitalized *for* covidhttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/study-number-of-kids-hospitalized-for-covid-is-overcounted.html …
You defined it too narrowly, otherwise high-risk patients with dyspnea fever etc. have been admitted. I'm not a hospital coding expert, but there is clearly instructions/methods on how to distinguish primary diagnoses from incidental positives.
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Now if the claim is that hospitals all ignored these instructions, or that the numbers/analyses all ignored this etc? That's the kind of thing that can be studied and demonstrated. I don't doubt tons of researchers would be happy to do this, and we'd all read an actual paper.
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Yes there were perverse incentives around billing. Direct chart review with formal adjudication of cause specific hospitalization is a better way. tldr- if a 68 yr old man is admitted for typical acute MI and happens to have a few strands of SarsCov2 RNA in throat that’s “with”
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