Table 1 Summary of patients assigned a PE ICD-10 code who should have been assigned an alternative diagnostic code (Miscoded PEs)
Diagnosis | Number coded as PE |
|---|---|
Abscess | 1 |
Anxiety | 4 |
Bloody diarrhea | 1 |
Bronchitis | 1 |
Cardiac arrest | 1 |
Chest pain | 9 |
Colic | 1 |
Dyspnea NYD | 4 |
Elevated lactate | 1 |
Emphysema | 1 |
Exertional dyspnea | 2 |
Fever NYD | 1 |
General malaise | 1 |
Heart failure | 1 |
Homicidal threats | 1 |
Hyperparathyroidism | 1 |
Hypoxia | 5 |
Influenza | 1 |
Malignancy | 1 |
Metastatic cancer | 5 |
No discharge notes | 4 |
Pancreatic cancer | 2 |
Pleural effusion | 5 |
Pneumonia | 2 |
Recent PE | 3 |
Substance abuse | 1 |
Urinary tract infection | 1 |
Venous thromboembolism | 1 |
Weakness | 2 |
Total | 64 |