Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Age and sex differences in the sensitivity of ICD-10 diagnostic codes for identifying patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the British Columbia cardiac arrest registry: a retrospective cohort study
Authors' conclusion
One third of patients in our patient population suffering from OHCA and admitted to hospital were not coded as having a cardiac arrest.
Study context
- Population
- Emergency Medical Services (EMS)-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases from the BC Cardiac Arrest Registry that survived to hospital admission, 2012–2016of 6009 eligible OHCAs
- Participants
- 2,032 cases
- Outcome
- Sensitivity of OHCA-related ICD-10 codes (preadmission comorbidity or primary reason for hospital stay) in the hospital admissions database
Methodological detailsregistry linkage
- Registry linkage
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Sensitivity of OHCA-related ICD-10 codes
OHCA-related ICD-10 codes recorded
66.8 %
1357/2032; 95% CI 64.7, 68.8
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Sensitivity by sex and age group
- Sensitivity did not differ across sex and age groups
Diagnoses in cases without OHCA-related codes (n = 675)
%
- Acute MI as most responsible pre-admission diagnosis (225/675)
- 33.3
- CAD-related ICD-10 codes as pre-admission diagnoses (176/675)
- 26.1
Original publication
Age and sex differences in the sensitivity of ICD-10 diagnostic codes for identifying patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the British Columbia cardiac arrest registry: a retrospective cohort study. Resuscitation. Published 11 December 2025. doi:10.
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