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 exclusionConditionsICD-9 codes

Endocrine causesType 2 diabetes mellitus250.00, 250.02
Hypothyroidism244.9
Growth hormone deficiency253.3
Hypopituitarism253.2
Adrenal insufficiency255.41
Hypothalamic obesity259.8
Precocious puberty259.1
Cushing’s syndrome255.0
Type 1 diabetes mellitus250.01, 250.03

Genetic causesDown syndrome758.0
Turner syndrome758.6
Prader-Willi syndrome759.81
Albright hereditary osteodystrophy756.59
Bardet-Biedl/ Alström /Noonan/Carpenter’s syndromes759.89

Steroid treatmentTransplantV42.x
Rejection996.8x
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis714.3x
Inflammatory bowel disease555.9
Cancer, brain tumor191.1, 191.1x, 201.x–208.x
Histiocytosis277.89

Edema-causing, gastrointestinalCongestive heart failure428.0
Edema782.3
Nephrotic syndrome581.9
End-stage renal disease585.6
Eosinophilic esophagitis530.13
Ulcerative colitis, unspecified556.9

PsychiatricAntipsychotic use