Unspecified 9099 (13.0) 277 (16.3) Preoperative factors Smoking 13 247 (18.9) 281 (16.5) 0.063 Alcohol abuse 2423 (3.5) 58 (3.4) 0.003 Drug abuse 1035 (1.5) 19 (1.1) 0.032 Anaemia 21 714 (31.0) 511 (30.0) 0.021 Schizoaffective disorders 7556 (10.8) 246 (14.5) –0.110 Stroke 1315...
The first is that it is not possible to capture a representative sample of cases of ExDS or AgDS in national hospital databases because neither diag- nosis is specified in the ICD-9 or ICD-10, which such data- bases rely on [103], and the diagnoses are therefore unsearch- able in ...
An additional interesting result of the analysis of ExDS versus AgDS diagnosis were the findings that “other” drug use, a category that included opiates, mushrooms and LSD, as well as marijuana use, were associated with greater odds of survivability regardless of diagnosis (other/unspecified drug...