Recent evidence demonstrates that bisphosphonates increases bone mineral density (BMD) in the vast majority of patients, so that routine monitoring after initiation of bisphosphonates is not be warranted. Investigators performed a secondary analysis of data from the Fracture Intervention Trial using a mixe...
To increase the diagnostic accuracy, we applied a strict operational diagnosis of low bone density with appropriate ICD-10 codes and prescriptions for an osteoporosis-related medication. This operational definition is reliable, because the NHIS allows the prescription of osteoporosis-related medications ...
Medicare requires that each radiograph set include multiple views of the fracture site accompanied by a written interpretation by a physician stating that there has been no clinically significant evidence of fracture healing between the two sets of radiographs. Medicare considers not medically necessary u...
The TK has on average 10 million insured members. The database included records from ambulant and hospital care on selected diagnostic codes (WHO ICD-10 C50 for invasive cancer of the breast but not carcinoma in situ; for all other C codes and M80-M82, see Supplementary Table S1) and ...