Detection of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Development of an Automated Case-Finding Algorithm Using Administrative Data
Table 1
ICD-9 codes commonly utilized to identify possible acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and code distribution among potential PID cases sampled from Group Health Cooperative.
615.0-Inflammatory disease of uterus, except cervix
15 (3.8)
615.9-Unspecified inflammatory disease of uterus
80 (20.4)
GC: gonorrhea, GU: genitourinary, CT: chlamydia.
*A single potential PID case may include multiple ICD-9 codes. 393 total potential PID cases were identified, and a total of 435 ICD-9 codes were used.