Language
English
Publication Date
8-1-2024
Journal
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
DOI
10.5664/jcsm.11190
PMID
38661648
PMCID
PMC11294125
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
8-1-2024
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-print
Abstract
We investigated the accuracy of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for the identification of veterans with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. The charts of 139 randomly sampled veterans with ≥ 1 ICD-9 and ICD-10 code(s) for rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder were reviewed for documentation of a suspected, previous, or current diagnosis; clinical symptoms; and/or empiric treatments for this disorder. Notably, 71 (51.1%) patients with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder electronic diagnoses had not undergone polysomnography, and 29 (20.9%) had polysomnography reports without commentary on rapid eye movement sleep without atonia. Sleep centers are therefore encouraged to include a brief sentence in polysomnography report templates commenting on the presence/absence of rapid eye movement sleep without atonia.
Keywords
Humans, REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, Male, Polysomnography, Female, Veterans, Middle Aged, International Classification of Diseases, Reproducibility of Results, Aged, Adult, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, electronic health records, polysomnography
Published Open-Access
yes
Recommended Citation
Jones, Melissa B; Schenck, Carlos H; Azarian, Mehrnaz; et al., "Validation of Electronic Diagnostic Codes for Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder" (2024). Faculty and Staff Publications. 4535.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/baylor_docs/4535