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The second category of errors was due to the reporting of aspiration pneumonia on the death certificate.
Like the keyword searching method, of the 9 false positives, 6 records mentioned pneumonia in the cause of death field but their corresponding ICD-10 codes failed to provide any code related to pneumonia and the remaining errors were due to the reporting of aspiration pneumonia on the death certificate.
For the 9 additional cases which were not present in the reference standard, we noticed two categories of errors: 1 cases where the string 'pneumonia' is present in the death literal but not coded into ICD-10 and 2) the reporting of aspiration pneumonia on the death certificate.
There were no damages to the bronchoscope or reports of gastric aspiration.
One study has reported the incidence of aspiration in elderly CAP patients to be 71%%, which was significantly higher than control subjects without acute disease (10%%) [ 23].
Such information if available at the time could have averted the cytopathologists final report of the aspiration cytology as malignant.
Reports of fine needle aspiration cytology and microscopy of blood or fluid smears were excluded.
As for this study, no case of aspiration was reported in all of the 77 patients.
The Fujiki study reported the highest mortality of aspiration pneumonia at 59.1% with an especially strong association with in-hospital mortality (OR 49.9; 95% CI 6.23 398.94 59.
It has been reported that aspiration of foreign matter may occur easily among ICU patients due to several factors including the patient's body position and the use of enteric feeding and mechanical ventilation [2] [6].
The wide range reported for the prevalence rate of aspiration pneumonia was, no doubt, influenced by subject selection criteria, how "aspiration pneumonia" was clinically defined, and by the judgment of the clinicians involved in making the diagnosis.
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