We discovered that the official list of clinical codes for pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic identified some unlikely pregnancies (for example, in older men), principally due to a code describing a specific fetal position ("knee presentation"), which notably lacks "fetal" in the code description. This is an informative example of commonly overlooked problems in creating and using clinical data.
Journal article
2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00
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SNOMED CT, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms, clinical codelists, electronic health records, pregnancy, pregnancy records in primary care, Humans, Pregnancy, Female, Primary Health Care, COVID-19, Pandemics, Coronavirus Infections, Clinical Coding, SARS-CoV-2, Betacoronavirus