This paper updates these costs and benefits to 16 years of experience, and includes the impacts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the transition to ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes in 2015. It provides added confidence that costs of a lymphedema treatment mandate are ...
64 We acknowledge that basing our data set for external validation of the preoperative model on ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes may introduce bias. In addition, we are unable to externally validate the postoperative model since we did not have access to an independent cohort with data on patient...
Important considerations for management, however, involve balancing the risk of recurrence and the risk of lymphedema after lymphadenectomy.#From the Merative MarketScan Research Databases, adult patients were queried from 2007 to 2021.International Classification of Disease,Ninth(ICD-9) andTenth(ICD-10...
Lymphedematous areas are sites of regional immune destabilization depicting a typical example of immunocompromised cutaneous district (ICD). This study evaluates the expression of some components of the skin innate immunity on lymphedematous limbs with the aim to clarify some facets of the ICD. ...
64 We acknowledge that basing our data set for external validation of the preoperative model on ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes may introduce bias. In addition, we are unable to externally validate the postoperative model since we did not have access to an independent cohort with data on patient-...
The study population, lymphedema patients who were diagnosed after endometrial cancer treatment, was defined as patients who had diagnostic codes for both endometrial cancer (ICD-10 code C54) and lymphedema (ICD-10 code I890) between 2004 to 2017. Among them, those who already had a lymphedema ...