Neurology visit rates remain consistently low throughout childhood for patients with DBMD, potentially limiting access to comprehensive care. Medicaid insurance is significantly associated with lower likelihoods of annual neurology follow-up among pediatric DBMD patients. Despite advancements in therapie...
Out of 1,025,340 cases with 114,369,638 medical claim codes, we included participants who were diagnosed with SSNHL, ICD-10: H912). Among them, we included only the participants who underwent an audiometry exam (claim code: E6931-E6937, F6341-F6348) and were treated with steroids. F...
www.nature.com/npjpcrm ARTICLE OPEN Change in health status in COPD: a seven-year follow-up cohort study Josefin Sundh1, Scott Montgomery2,3,4, Mikael Hasselgren5, Mary Kämpe6, Christer Janson6, Björn Ställberg7 and Karin Lisspers7 Health status is a prognostic factor included in...
In order to evaluate the socioeconomic impact of RM on patients and caregivers, the following data points were collected at each inhospital visit: (1) all costs incurred in order to reach the hospital; (2) productivity loss, assessed in terms of the number of working hours lost; (3) impa...
The ICD-9 five-digit diagnostic code for the index service was used to identify the diagnostic category of the bundled payment (i.e., alcohol-related, drug-related, or mental health). 2.5.2. Trigger Because the aim of this study was to design a detox bundled payment, it was determined ...
“I was once offered a free psychic reading by someone who described herself as a ‘mystic’. We had met during a television debate and afterwards one of her satisfied customers told me of her amazing talent and assured me that a single visit would be enough to convince me of her abilitie...
Children were eligible for inclusion if they were male, aged 6–12 years, with an IQ > 80 (in the Culture Fair Intelligence Test) and an ICD-10 diagnosis of CD (F91), mixed disorder of conduct and emotions (F92), or hyperkinetic conduct disorder (F90.1), as determined using the ...
Within each CHC included in Stop CRC, individuals were eligible if they were (1) 50–74 years old, (2) had attended a clinic visit in the previous year, and (3) were due for CRC screening. Being due for screening was defined as having no evidence in the electronic health record (EHR...
Non-respondents were defined as not having returned the one-year follow-up questionnaire. All analyses were performed on three subgroups defined by a combination of diagnosis (ICD 10) and procedure (Nomesco classification of surgical procedures, NCSP) codes as described in Table 1. The subgroups ...
Mean weekly MVPA duration decreased by 0.2 h (95% CI, 0.1, 0.3) by 2002–2004 (mid follow-up) and by 0.6 h (95% CI 0.5, 0.7) at the last visit before the censoring date (diabetes date, death or March 2017). Participants who met physical activity recommendations were more likely to...