Pregnancy-Related Clinical Codes in Unlikely Populations in Primary Care.

Authors

Helen Curtis, Peter Inglesby, Ben Goldacre, Rose Higgins, Amir Mehrkar, Sebastian Bacon, Brian MacKenna

Published in

JMIR medical informatics. Volume 14. Pages e89620. Jun 30, 2026. Epub Jun 30, 2026.

Abstract

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.

PMID:
42378516
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 01 Jul 2026.

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