Patients aged 18 and older with ICD code consistent with spinal pathology and compression fractures were included. Outcome was defined as kyphoplasty by race and socioeconomic status (SES) with low SES defined by dual enrollment in Medicare/Medicaid. Results: There was a total of 215,502 ...
ICD-10-CM coding has a single diagnosis of VCF, not differentiating between new or subsequent fracture. Thus, it was necessary to use a proxy measure for refracture by evaluating visits in follow-up with additional/subsequent VCF procedure codes. Therefore, the rates of subsequent treatment ...
patients (6.7%, BKP) and 11 patients (9.9%, conservative). The number of readmissions was 1.62 times higher (P= 0.039), the length of stay 1.09 times higher (P= 0.046) in the conservative group. No difference in the DRG scores were found (P= 0.11). In conclusion, patients with osteo...
International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision diagnosis codes for pathologic, dorsal, and lumbar fracture of vertebrae were cross-referenced with ICD-9 procedure codes and Current Procedural Terminology codes to select the population. Patients younger than 40 years or those who underwent both ...