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) (...
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...