In this study, the term hospitalization was used to refer to hospital discharges from public hospitals in Kuwait. Every record in the national database includes: patient demographic data; diagnosis codes for the principal diag- nosis and one additional diagnosis; an ICD-10 code for the external ...
daily incidence of AOFIs in the cold season (20.2 per 100,000 population) was observed on days when the ground surface was covered by compact or wet snow, air temperature ranged from −7.0 °C to −0.7 °C, and the amount of precipitation was above 0.4 mm. In the warm season, ...
Falling was defined according to the codes MB46.3 (A sudden spontaneous fall while standing and recovery within seconds or minutes) and MB47.C (Tendency to fall because of old age or other unclear health problems) from the International Classification of Diseases-11 (ICD-11). ...