The purpose of this study is to determine the physician diagnosed prevalence of upper and lower respiratory disease in OEF/OIF veterans. Methods: We queried the Veterans Health Administration Support Service Center database to identify veterans in the Desert Pacific Healthcare Network with ICD-10 ...
Results of sputum culture may be falsely positive due to upper airway colonization with pneumococci [36–38]. Nevertheless, colonization is more common in young children and patients with chronic pulmonary disease, and excluding the latter group did not alter our risk estimates notably. Because the...
Pre-hospital advanced airway management by anaesthetist and nurse anaesthetist critical care teams: a prospective observational study of 2028 pre-hospital tracheal intubations. Br J Anaesth. 2018;120:1103–9. Article CAS Google Scholar Ringburg AN, Spanjersberg WR, Frankema SP, Steyerberg EW, ...
ICD-10 codes for lower respiratory tract infections in this study; Table S2: Characteristics of the genetic instrument variables for the obesity-related traits at the genome-wide significance level; Table S3: Characteristics of the genetic instrument variables for the potential mediators at the genome...