The American Medical Association (AMA)[3]first developed and published CPT in 1966. Although this introduction initiated a process whereby standard terms could be used to describe services, the system was primarily focused on surgical procedures with limited coverage of testing and cognitive services....
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We focused on general surgical procedures, which represent the clinical domain with the largest growth in robotic surgery. These files include additional information on patient age, demographic characteristics, and comorbid conditions in addition to detailed procedural information (eg, operative approach ...
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St. Peter, MD o ver 70,000 cases of appendicitis are seen in chil- dren in the United States each year, making it the most common acute surgical condition.1,2 A life- time risk of appendicitis has been estimated at 8.7% for boys and 6.7% for girls.3 The age-specific incidence ...
(Figure 4) or advanced imaging. Findings upon oral examination include gingivitis, fistula formation, gingival recession, deposition of calculus, and swelling or abnormal tooth mobility. Tooth resorption and bulbous enlargement are frequent features on radiographic examination. Currently, surgical extraction...
Hospital volume was defined as the number of annual surgical cases per hospital for the designated operation identified within the KID 2003. Caseload at each sample hospital was multiplied by 1.25 to correct the random 80% sampling rate from individual hospitals within the KID 2003 and rounded to...
Surgical Specialists Among obstetricians, the proportion of pregnant patients who received appropriate prenatal screening varied from 82.6% to 93.6% (quintile 1) to 30.9% to 65.7% (quintile 5) within MSAs, and the proportion of low-risk pregnancies with cesarean delivery (on average less appropriate...
Advances in surgical, medical and device therapies have demonstrated the capacity of the heart to reverse, at least in part, the failing phenotype. However, a more careful characterization of the molecular changes associated with this effect is necessary to define true myocardial recovery, in which...