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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 95, 期 5, 页码 649-652出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603293
关键词
mesothelioma; epidemiology; ICD-9; ICD-10; accidental poisoning
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ICD-9 code 163 (malignant neoplasm of pleura) listed as underlying cause of death detected only 40% of Scottish mesothelioma cases (all body sites) from the cancer registry in 1981 - 1999. This is lower than both the previously published 55% figure, derived from UK mesothelioma register data 1986 - 1991, which is based on any mention of mesothelioma on death certificates, cross-referenced to cancer registry data, and the 44% figure derived from Scottish mortality data 1981 - 1999, which captured any mention of mesothelioma on the death certificate. Detection from cancer registry data increased to 75% under ICD-10 in Scotland, confirming earlier predictions of the benefit of ICD-10's more specific mesothelioma codes. Including the accidental poisoning codes E866.4 (ICD-9) and X49 (ICD-10), covering poisoning by 'unspecified' and 'other' causes, which appear to have been used as coding surrogates for mesothelioma when asbestos exposure was explicitly mentioned in deaths suggestive of a mesothelioma, and which are recorded as the underlying cause of death in 4 - 7% of mesotheliomas, may improve the mesothelioma detection rate in future epidemiological studies.
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