8,9 This measure excludes admissions for medical treatment of cancer and uses ICD-9 codes to assign remaining hospitalizations to 1 of 5 cohorts: medicine, surgery/gynecology, cardiorespiratory, cardiovascular, or neurology. For this study, we removed hospitalizations for AMI, CHF, pneumonia, ...
10,11 We could not distinguish among cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine problems, because ICD-9-CM codes in the MEPS public use files are limited to major categories (3-digit codes) to prevent patient identification. For the same reason, some potentially spine-related diagnoses were not ...
Patients with psoriasis were identified using the ICD-9-CM code 696 (“Psoriasis/Like Disorders”) and ICD-10-CM code L40 (“Psoriasis”); these data represented patient-reported diagnoses of psoriasis. Only patients aged 18 years or older were included in our analysis. Our study population ...
3. Japan CardioVascular Surgery Database (JCVSD) The JCVSD is divided into adult and congenital sections. The purpose of the JCVSD is to conduct nationwide research on the types and risks of cardiovascular surgery performed in Japan, and the degree of difference in the risks of surgery between...
Researchers have compared high-volume to low-volume hospitals and found significant hospital-level variation in major complications, health resource utilization, and health care costs after CHD surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Using nationwide representative claim data from the United States Military Health...
We demonstrated the significance of surgery in both OS and BCSS on univariate analysis (Table 6), but no relationship with survival was found on multivariate analysis, principally because fewer than 10 patients with IMLN metastases underwent IMLN dissection for statistical analysis. Therefore, ...
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common and resource demanding birth defect managed in the United States, with approximately 40,000 children undergoing CHD surgery year. Researchers have compared high-volume to low-volume hospitals and found significant hospital-level variation in major ...
Meanwhile, for patients with paroxysmal or lone AF exhibiting low susceptibility to both pharmacological and procedure based therapies, minimally invasive surgery has been successfully performed in recent years; the thoracoscopic based procedures may gradually replace the conventional maze procedure for ...
https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html 15. US Census Bureau Population Division. 2010 Census summary file 1 sex by age table. Issued September 2012. Accessed December 11, 2018. https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2010/dec/summary-file-1.html 16. Fiscella K, Tancredi D, Franks ...
Exposures Initial cancer treatment category (chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy vs surgery or other treatment). Main Outcomes and Measures Post–cancer treatment longitudinal CD4 count, longitudinal HIV RNA level, and all-cause mortality. Results Among the 196 participants (135 [68.9%] male; median age...