electrical stimulation or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for the treatment of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. Moreover, the Work Loss Data Institute
This retrospective cross-sectional study examined patients who made one or more NHI claims with HIVD (ICD-10 code: M511, M518, M519) as the primary or secondary diagnosis over a 10-year period (2010–2019). From this sample, we selected adult patients, aged 20 years or older, who soug...
who also donated blood samples for DNA, white blood cells and plasma tests and filled out a 16-module questionnaire on health-related topics such as lifestyle, diet and clinical diagnoses described in WHO ICD-10. A significant part of the cohort has whole genome sequencing (3000), whole exo...
Hip and knee OA surgeries were identified using ICD-10 primary/most responsible discharge diagnosis codes M16-M17; while surgeries for spinal OA were identified using ICD-10 codes M47 and M48.0. METHODS We compared the overall and age-sex specific means (SD) of the PCS to the corresponding ...
Based on a definition of diabetes from a previous study45, patients with type 2 diabetes were defined as showing the presence of identical E11–E14 (ICD-10) codes at least two times, or an E11–E14 code and the prescription of anti-diabetic medications, which entails the use of sulfonylur...