To capture the distribution of disease prevalence across age and sex, we computed disease prevalence curves by dividing the total number of disease codes (ICD codes) within each age-sex stratum by the number of enrolled patients matching these demographics (see Methods part 1 for the precise defi...
For the purpose of our analysis, children were defined as subjects <18 years of age and adults were defined as subjects >18 years of age. Results During an 8-year period, 120 patients with encoded diagnoses of 'pneumococcal bacteremia' (ICD code 041.2) and 'pneumonia' (ICD code 486) (...
32–34]. In the present study, the recurrence of sickness absence due to CMD will be examined, thereby stratifying by gender and age. In addition, the time-to-onset of recurrent episodes of sickness absence due to CMDs will be investigated. We hypothesize that the...