We identified our study population using the ICD-9 diagnostic codes for elective AAA (eAAA) (441.4) and ruptured AAA (rAAA) (441.3) and the ICD-9 procedural code for AAA repair (38.44) (when hospitals bill for procedures, an ICD-9 procedural code is used rather than a code from the ...
For a US patient with a 3.0-cm AAA detected by screening, this would reduce the average number of surveillance scans from approximately 15 to 7. If the lower 95% prediction limits of the estimates are applied (to acknowledge that the populations in each study may have different growth and ...
Methods: We analyzed data from patients aged 鈮 18 with a history of intra-abdominal surgery and diagnosed with SBO (ICD-9 code: 560, 568) and were successful treated non-surgically between 2004 and 2008. Participants were divided into model-derivation (80%) and validation (20%) group. ...
During this time, a specific ICD-9CM code (397.1) existed for endovascular aortic repair. Treatment by EVAR was independently predictive of decreased mortality on multivariate analysis for iAAA mortality. Based on these data, the limitation of access to endovascular technology observed for women (...
Design Premier Perspective Database was used to identify all inpatient hospital discharges with a laparoscopic total abdominal hysterectomy procedure (ICD-9-CM code 68.41) between January 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Discharges were grouped by ES use and without ES use (non-ES). Propensity score...
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