Overestimation of the diagnosis of eosinophilic colitis with reliance on billing codes

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Pediatric Eosinophilic Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology & Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Electronic address: muira@email.chop.edu.
• ² Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
• ³ Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Diseases Program, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
• ⁴ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Colorado, Denver, Colo.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
• ⁶ Division of Allergy, Immunology, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.
• ⁷ Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colo; Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Diseases Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colo.
• ⁸ Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing and Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC; University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC.
• ⁹ Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• ¹⁰ Center for Pediatric Eosinophilic Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology & Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.