25 The difference-in-differences approach compares trends in admission rates before and after TFA restrictions in counties with and without restrictions. The approach is designed to study 2 populations that may not have the same absolute event rates but do have parallel trends in event rates before...
48 The diagnosis field was set to identify all patient admissions with a primary diagnosis of COPD (ICD-10 codes J40-J44) for the first episode within the hospital admission spell (the whole admission) between 2006 and 2010. Patient and hospital inclusion criteria Analysis of COPD readmission ...
Relative risk of incident CVD-related hospital admission since baseline among men with previous history of CVD by ICD-10-AM diagnosis code, according to degree of erectile dysfunction.Emily, BanksGrace, JoshyWalter,...
Hospital Admission Authorisations HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus IBGE: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) IBP: Índice Brasileiro de Privação (Brazilian Index of Deprivation) IC: Confidence Intervals ICD-10: International Statis...
Based upon administrative data, the potentially preventable readmission (PPR) method is used commonly to identify hospital readmissions that may indicate problems with a prior admission, and therefore be potentially preventable14. PPRs are those readmissions that could be avoided potentially given better ...
we retrieved information on age at admission, sex, main diagnosis (coded according to International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision, German modification; ICD-10-GM), patient clinical complexity level (PCCL), length of stay in hospital (LoS), hospital mortality (coded by discharge reason ...
Hospital readmissions were considered to be unavoidable if any of the following characteristics were present: (1) planned readmission (eg, scheduled at the time of the index admission, planned treatment follow-up, and planned chemotherapy) or (2) unforeseen readmission for newly developed conditions ...
Admissions with a primary diagnosis for the admission (i.e. first episode of care) of (i) respiratory disease (coded to International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD10), chapter J), (ii) respiratory infections (ICD10 J00-22), (iii) asthma (ICD10 J45-46), and (iv) chronic ...
We classified comorbidities based on inpatient and outpatient ICD-10-CM codes in the VHA Corporate Data Warehouse in the 2 years before admission using the method of Quan et al17 (eTable 1 in the Supplement). We did not have data on the amount of supplemental oxygen that patients required ...
HES defines planned admissions as those “where the decision to admit could be separated in time from the actual admission”. We exclude planned patients whose admissions were part of a planned course of treatment (for example, patients on dialysis, or cancer patients on chemotherapy). The Poisso...