Enhanced Identification of Postoperative Infections among Inpatients
Deborah S. Yokoe*

, Gary A. Noskin†, Susan M. Cunningham†, Gianna Zuccotti‡, Theresa Plaskett‡, Victoria J. Fraser§, Margaret A. Olsen§, Jerome I. Tokars¶, Steven Solomon¶, Trish M. Perl#, Sara E. Cosgrove#, Richard S. Tilson*, Maurice Greenbaum**, David C. Hooper††, Kenneth E. Sands‡‡, John Tully§§, Loreen A. Herwaldt¶¶, Daniel J. Diekema¶¶, Edward S. Wong##, Michael Climo##, and Richard Platt***
Author affiliations: *Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ‡Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; §Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; **North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital, Salem, Massachusetts, USA; ††Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ‡‡Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; §§Mount Auburn Medical Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ¶¶University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; ##McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA; ***Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Table A1
ICD-9-CM procedure and diagnosis codes to identify study procedures and screen diagnosis codes
ICD-9-CM codes |
Description |
Procedure codes |
CABG |
36.10–36.14 |
Aortocoronary bypass of coronary artery/arteries |
36.15–36.17 |
Internal mammary-coronary artery bypass |
36.19 |
Other bypass anastomosis for heart revascularization |
36.2 |
Heart revascularization by arterial implant |
Cesarean delivery |
74.0–74.2, 74.4 |
Cesarean section (classical, low cervical, extraperitoneal, of other specified type) |
74.9, 74.91, 74.99 |
Cesarean section of unspecified type |
Breast procedures |
85.23 |
Subtotal mastectomy |
85.31–85.32 |
Reduction mammoplasty |
85.33–85.36 |
Subcutaneous mammectomy |
5.4, 85.41–85.48 |
Mastectomy (unilateral or bilateral, simple or radical) |
5.50 |
Augmentation mammoplasty |
5.53 |
Unilateral breast implant |
5.54 |
Bilateral breast implant |
5.6 |
Mastopexy |
5.7 |
Total reconstruction of breast |
Diagnosis codes |
Description |
998.5, 998.51, 998.59 |
Postoperative infection |
674.32, 674.34 |
Other complications of obstetrical surgical wounds |
670.02, 670.04 |
Major puerperal infection |
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