Patients were excluded if their NVR record did not have a match in HES, due to lack of consent or different admission and procedure dates. Agreement between different presentations of PAD recorded in the NVR and the ICD-10 diagnostic codes recorded in HES was evaluated using the unweighted ...
That's a tall order, but is an effort that is of major importance. As this editorialist has previously written, the ICD has been a revolutionary contribution to the management of sudden cardiac death, but issues persist concerning its efficacy in prevention of cardiac death from all causes, su...
Objective The efficacy and safety of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) for the treatment of fatal ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) were evaluated. Methods Forty patients with fatal VTs or VFs with an ICD implanted were studied retrospectively. There were 35 mal...
ICD‐10 coderespiratory syncytial virussensitivityspecificitysurveillanceRespiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRI) in young children. ICD-10-based syndromic surveillance can transmit data rapidly in a standardized way.We investigated the ...
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) has been used for many years in many countries to manage health information. The World Health Organization (WHO) will soon replace ICD-10 with the International Classification of Diseases, 11th rev...
Validation of these electrograms is currently being performed in the RIONI study. A total of 210 episodes will be collected by about 40 European clinical centers. The study primarily investigates whether the IEGM-online based evaluation of the appropriateness of the ICD's therapeutic decision ...
Applicable CPT / HCPCS / ICD-10 Codes Background Policy Scope of Policy This Clinical Policy Bulletin addresses the evaluation of sinusitis. Experimental, Investigational, or Unproven Aetna considers the following experimental, investigational, or unproven because of insufficient evidence: ...
We evaluate supervised learning approaches to automatically assign international classification of diseases (ninth revision) – clinical modification (ICD-9-CM) codes to EMRs by experimenting with a large realistic EMR dataset. The overall goal is to identify methods that offer superior performance in ...
This prognostic study evaluates the use of machine-learning methods, with prescription drug and claims data, in detecting opioid overdose risk in Medicare
As well outlined in previous chapters, chest pain remains one of the most common and complex chief complaints presenting to emergency departments (EDs) in the USA today. Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a major cause of death (almost nine million people globally in 2017), its noninvasive early...