In the current study, we had to make an assumption that the proportion of X-ray confirmed CAP was same in the whole cases of ICD-10 code pneumonia. This assumption may not be true but we could not review chest X-rays amongst retrospectively identified ICD-10 coded pneumonia cases, because...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO)International Classification of Diseases(ICD) is used in clinical fields to classify diseases and monitormorbidity(the number of cases of a disease) andmortality(the number of deaths due to a disease). In this section, we will introduce terminology used by ...
The GBD disease categories, which are based upon the International Classifica- tion of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) [46], do not always specify particular infectious agents, but rather focus on the clinical symptoms of infection, or non-specified dis- ease groups. These ...
CVD Mortality We obtained mortality data on date of death, age, and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes for underlying cause of death from the New York City Office of Vital Statistics. Daily mortality counts for all deaths in New York City fro...
10-13 Furthermore, anxiety and depression are commonly reported alongside PCC.14-16 Most studies evaluating cognitive dysfunction in patients with SARS-CoV-2 have focused on the clinical characterization of cognitive symptoms associated with acute SARS-CoV-2 and PCC.4,5,9,17-19 With respect to ...
Symptoms, Signs, and Tests Rapid onset of muscle aches, fatigue, fever, malaise Physical exam Many lesions are characteristic enough to be diagnostic Symptoms, Signs, and Tests Laboratory testing Culture: most commonly used for bacteria Once the bacteria is identified, it is tested for susceptibilit...
(n=34), and patients with no LRT focus, i.e.; neither an acute LRTI discharge diagnosis (ICD10 codes: J13, J18.0, J18.1, J18.2, J18.8, J18.9, J20, J20.2, J20.9, J22, J44.0, J44.1) nor any new or worsened LRTI symptoms (cough, sputum production, dyspnoea, chest pain), ...
ICD-9 codes, categorized into viral, gastrointestinal, skin, fever, central nervous system (CNS), or pulmonary symptom clusters, were correlated with reportable infectious diseases identified by the local health department (HD). These reportable infectious diseases are designated class A diseases (CAD...
but there is considerable misclassification of the cause of death. This misclassification may be deliberate in countries without nationalised healthcare such as the United States, where reimbursement by private insurance may be related to the ICD code used for the primary cause of death. Elsewhere, ...
Body mass index values of at least 30 were used to confirm the diagnosis of obesity by ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM code. Primary outcome was death after the onset of COVID-19. Statistical Analysis The R Matchit package, version 3.0.2 (R Program for Statistical Computing) was used to ...