Results of studies validating diagnoses of myocardial infarction (MI) in administrative data (in ascending order of publication).

aValidation was conducted amongst a coronary care unit population.bEight algorithms were evaluated in this study; the major parameters are listed here.cThis article only reported statistics specific to each sex, age category, and time period, and did not report on the validity of nonfatal MI overall; therefore, we have provided the ranges of the 10 sensitivity and PPV values reported in this article.COD = cause-of-death; LOS = length-of-stay; 95% CI = 95% confidence interval.