Research Article
Suboptimal Clinical Documentation in Young Children with Severe Obesity at Tertiary Care Centers
Table 1
Diagnoses excluded from electronic health records (EHR) search.
| Category of exclusion | Conditions | ICD-9 codes |
| Endocrine causes | Type 2 diabetes mellitus | 250.00, 250.02 | Hypothyroidism | 244.9 | Growth hormone deficiency | 253.3 | Hypopituitarism | 253.2 | Adrenal insufficiency | 255.41 | Hypothalamic obesity | 259.8 | Precocious puberty | 259.1 | Cushing’s syndrome | 255.0 | Type 1 diabetes mellitus | 250.01, 250.03 |
| Genetic causes | Down syndrome | 758.0 | Turner syndrome | 758.6 | Prader-Willi syndrome | 759.81 | Albright hereditary osteodystrophy | 756.59 | Bardet-Biedl/ Alström /Noonan/Carpenter’s syndromes | 759.89 |
| Steroid treatment | Transplant | V42.x | Rejection | 996.8x | Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis | 714.3x | Inflammatory bowel disease | 555.9 | Cancer, brain tumor | 191.1, 191.1x, 201.x–208.x | Histiocytosis | 277.89 |
| Edema-causing, gastrointestinal | Congestive heart failure | 428.0 | Edema | 782.3 | Nephrotic syndrome | 581.9 | End-stage renal disease | 585.6 | Eosinophilic esophagitis | 530.13 | Ulcerative colitis, unspecified | 556.9 |
| Psychiatric | Antipsychotic use | — |
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