There is very limited data on its incidence and associated risk factors at population level.MethodThe Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database includes demographic, diagnostic and administrative data for all hospital admissions in England. All subjects with an ICD10 code for achalasia in the ...
Subjects were identified by the presence of an International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code for diagnosis and treatment. With the large sample size (n = 6938) the authors should be congratulated for their efforts.doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2019-319513Froukje B van Hoeij...
All subjects with an ICD10 code for achalasia and initial treatment between January 2006- September 2016 were grouped by coded initial treatment; injection, endoscopic dilatation or surgery. Procedural success was defined by time to further treatment, in the case of dilatations up to 3 procedures ...