Eleni Galanis, Azita Goshtasebi, Yuen Wai Hung, Jonathan Chan, Douglas Matsell, Kristine Chapman, Gilaad Kaplan, David Patrick, Bei Yuan Zhang, Marsha Taylor, Dimitra Panagiotoglou, Shannon Majowicz
BACKGROUND: Enteric infections and their chronic sequelae are a major cause of disability and death. Despite the increasing use of administrative health data in measuring the burden of chronic diseases in the population, there is a lack of validated International Classification of Disease (ICD) code-based case definitions, particularly in the Canadian context. Our objective was to validate ICD code definitions for sequelae of enteric infections in Canada: acute kidney injury (AKI); hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS); thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP); Guillain-Barré syndrome/Miller-Fisher syndrome (GBS/MFS); chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP); ankylosing spondylitis (AS); reactive arthritis; anterior uveitis; Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, erythema nodosum (EN); neonatal listeriosis (NL); and Graves' disease (GD)...
August 1, 2023: Canada Communicable Disease Report