Hospitalizations for Unspecified Mycoses in a Large Administrative Data Set and Implications for Fungal Disease Burden Estimates, United States, 2019-2021.
Open Forum Infect Dis
; 10(3): ofad100, 2023 Mar.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2312980
ABSTRACT
Fungal diseases are frequently coded as "unspecified mycoses" in data sets used to estimate disease burden. In a large administrative database, 50.9% of unspecified mycosis hospitalizations during 2019-2021 had positive fungal laboratory testing, most commonly Candida (79.1%), highlighting a potential need for improved coding practices and greater fungal laboratory testing.
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2023
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